John Bel Edwards: “I believe Mr. Shadegg, my colleague from Arizona, just said a few seconds ago that these projects were not requested by…”

“I believe Mr. Shadegg, my colleague from Arizona, just said a few seconds ago that these projects were not requested by the administration. If I heard him correctly, that is a patently false statement. These projects, these $379 million worth of army projects, I believe, were either all requested by the administration and the Pentagon or the vast, vast majority were requested by the administration and the Pentagon as being important projects that needed to be funded this year as part of our Nation's defense effort included in the war against terrorism.”