Jeff Denham: “I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. LaMalfa). Mr. LaMALFA. Madam Chair, I thank my colleague…”

“I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. LaMalfa). Mr. LaMALFA. Madam Chair, I thank my colleague, Mr. Denham, for his hard work on curtailing this waste of taxpayer money. Here are just a few of the headlines currently on the Internet about California's high-speed rail project: ``Why California's High-Speed Rail is Off Track''; ``High-Speed Rail Brings Fears of Gutted Communities and Noise''; ``High-Speed Rail Foes Cite Noise, Property Value Concerns''; ``Protesters Rail Against High-Speed Rail Route Proposal''; ``High-Speed Rail Opponents Expected to Converge at LA Meeting''; finally, ``What an Unholy Mess This California Bullet Train Meeting is Going to Be.'' This is all reflected in southern California planning for a route that isn't even planned yet; yet billions of dollars of the California taxpayers--but even more importantly, in this body, Federal taxpayer dollars--are being planned and spent and will be spent if we don't stop this here tonight for a route, for a plan, for a project that isn't even a plan. You couldn't send astronauts into outer space without a plan to bring them back, yet they are hell-bent on this project to spend the money as fast as they can without having any idea where the route is going to go; and we are seeing people all over California protest it, for a project that has tripled in price from what the voters saw as Prop 1A just 7 years ago.…”