Kevin Kiley: “we have recently succeeded here in cutting off funding for the California High-Speed Rail disaster, which is, in my…”

“we have recently succeeded here in cutting off funding for the California High-Speed Rail disaster, which is, in my view, the worst public infrastructure failure in U.S. history. I introduced a bill at the beginning of this Congress saying that we should cut off all funding for the high-speed rail and following an investigation with Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, we have succeeded in doing just that. Yet, the Governor of California has, rather than seeing the writing on the wall and winding this failed project down, has now said he is going to spend $20 billion more to keep it on life support and has even accused me of lying, saying: ``Representative Kiley continues to lie about California High-Speed Rail.'' Mr. Speaker, I am more than willing to be proven wrong. I am happy to be proven wrong. If the Governor and his team would like to take me for a trip on the high-speed train from San Francisco to Los Angeles that was supposed to be built 5 years ago, I will happily retract my criticism. I am ready to hop onboard when I fly home to California today. If the train is there, I will acknowledge my mistake and admit the accusation that has been leveled against me, but I don't think that is going to happen because no such train exists. In fact, not only do we not have a train from San Francisco to L.A. that was supposed to be finished 5 years ago, we don't have any stations.”