Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, the last speaker was talking about the current law. Just a little history for the body. Up until the Senate managed to overrule the House 6 years ago and took the Members' high-priority projects and placed them inside the formula funding, the House of Representatives, and the Senate up until last time, has always kept the Members' projects outside of the bill. It was easy enough to accept that the last time around, because underneath the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Shuster) we raised the amount of money going into the Highway Trust Fund, the amount of money available for highways and transit, very significantly so those Members' projects could be included within the formula. Unfortunately, we are not in that kind of position today. Secondly, the gentleman mentioned the projects of national significance. I know it is very true that it is not a delineation of what is going to be in there, but there has been $6.6 billion set aside for these projects.”