John W. Olver: “But what we find out in that process is that the States very disproportionately focused that rescission upon…”

“But what we find out in that process is that the States very disproportionately focused that rescission upon enhancements and took enhancements in some places completely out of the budget, which, under the highway fund, we are supposed to be giving 10 percent of the highway formula moneys to enhancements. So this language was, in fact, exactly or very similar to language which was passed out of the T&I Committee of which the gentleman is the ranking member a couple of days after we had marked up in committee. So the T&I Committee already has agreed to the idea that enhancements should not be disproportionately targeted for rescissions when they occur when they are required by the legislation. In fact, we were asked by the T&I Committee to do something very similar to this, if not exactly this, which we have done, in making certain that there would not be disproportionate cuts to enhancements in the process of applying rescissions.”