Rob Woodall: “I say, in broad terms, that I support what the gentleman from Oregon has just said. I served with him on the…”

“I say, in broad terms, that I support what the gentleman from Oregon has just said. I served with him on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. I was one of the folks who supported the bill that unanimously left committee. The great State of Georgia is dependent on the Port of Savannah, about which the gentleman from Oregon has just laid out the critical funding infrastructure needs. The question with the harbor maintenance trust fund, I want to be clear, is not one of the diversions of those resources. We often talk about trust funds as if someone is dipping his hand in and taking money out of the trust funds, and there is not a single person who works at a single port in the great State of Georgia who believes that is true-- because it is not. The trust fund still sits there. The gentleman's point is that we should be spending the money in the trust fund, and he is absolutely right about that. Correct any misunderstanding. No one is spending those resources elsewhere. Those resources are still in the trust fund, and they ought to be spent.…”