I request 5 legislative days during which Members may revise and extend and insert extraneous material on H. Res. 970 into the Record. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Michigan? There was no…

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I yield myself as much time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of House Resolution 860, supporting the initiatives of Chicago Wilderness and the Children's Outdoor Bill of Rights. With more and more children growing…

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So the $250 million is only part of the Federal program.

We ought to forget the program.

Are you saying that basically the benefits here may not justify the cost of doing that kind of a survey?

I think that you made reference, Mr. Gimble, to an audit by the Department of Defense Inspector General back in 2003 which said that 'controls over the transit subsidies program within the Army, Navy, Air Force, and the Defense Logistics…

There is no use having a program where anywhere close to 25 percent is abuse.

That is one of the intriguing aspects of this matter, it seems to me, is it is kind of hard to state with any confidence as to how many people would be riding Metro or some other form of mass transit who otherwise would not be.

The Subcommittee this afternoon looks at the Federal Transit Benefit Program.

If there is anything close to a 25 percent rate of abuse, ... you are talking about perhaps $150 million to $200 million of waste in 2008.

But it is not income to the employee?

At this point if we are going to be spending $1 billion to help a fairly small percentage of Federal employees switch from single occupancy vehicle to mass transit, and in any event a fairly small percentage of Federal employees period…

That would be great. Thank you.

We are talking here about a significant amount of money.

Then how do you say there is great proven value to the program when you have no way of assessing how many people were motivated by the program to do something and may have done it the same way anyway?