Political Quotes

“This amendment would prohibit $1 million from going to the Rhode Island Department of Transportation for the Blackstone River Bikeway, and it would reduce the overall cost of the bill by a commensurate amount. This particular earmark would fund a project to construct a 3rac{1}{2} ext{ mile route or portion of a bikeway in North Smithfield, and Woonsocket, including the construction of sections that would connect a public library, a planned middle school complex, and several bridges. Here we have a project that is described as a cyclist's paradise of mill villages and farming communities in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. According to the Web site of the project, the bikeway is being developed thanks largely to Federal transportation funding, and it's an effort among Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management to Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation and on and on, some other entities as well. Well, certainly Federal transportation funding is right. There is a lot of it going here. And a lot of earmarks have gone this way as well. Over the past several years, this project has received several earmarks.”