John W. Olver: “I am surely not meaning to infer that we are cutting the last piece of rain forest that is the size of this Chamber or…”

I move to strike the last word. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Massachusetts is recognized.

I oppose this amendment strongly, but not because I like a VMT, particularly, and not that I do not understand that in rural areas this can be very burdensome. However, we have to have additional revenue. The reason our infrastructure is…

Now at this point we have--I think this is the last of this group of amendments that have been proposed in this area, in essence. And when you put them together, because one was for $6.5 million, one was for about $5 million, then there…

I'm not sure I have anything much to add to what my chairman has said, other than to just point out, if you look back at the number of dollars that were assigned for the fiscal year '11 bill, that was over $4.6 billion. So in 2012, the…