On the recordOctober 23, 2013
Mr. Speaker, I would like to clarify one thing, and that is the chairman and the ranking member did everything they could to stay within the guidelines and the jurisdiction of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and they did that. They did not vary in any way over into the Clean Water Act or anything else. So nothing in this bill is changing any of the standards; all it is doing is allowing parallel tracks. That is it. So the project mentioned by Mr. Woodall, which is 15 years, and the project in Mr. Hastings' area, which is 17 years, would only be done sooner, not by circumventing any environmental requirement, but through the parallel tracks. I now yield 2 minutes to my good friend from Georgia (Mr. Kingston).
