John W. Olver: “The problem is that we do not know exactly how much will be distributed, and we cannot know because all of these…”

“The problem is that we do not know exactly how much will be distributed, and we cannot know because all of these categories are not purely by a distribution, and there is still an inequity because no State should be getting that much more than some other States, and the inequities that show up here are bad; but I do not think that we can be at all certain that moving another $450 million is not going to tip the scales beyond what most of us would then think was going to be fair. This is a case where what the chairman and the ranking member have been doing is moving in a right direction, it needs to be moved more; but I have not yet seen the formula that would show that what is going to come out of the result of this amendment being proposed would actually be better and whether we may have tipped beyond where it needs to go to be reasonably fair to everyone. So I think we ought to allow the chairman and the ranking member to continue to improve these formulas.”