Wayne Gilchrest: “The Corps found that the benefit for the straightening is based solely upon time saving. It is not economically…”

“The Corps found that the benefit for the straightening is based solely upon time saving. It is not economically justified. And the Corps' findings go on to say, ``Based on our information, general funding for this purpose,'' straightening the Tolchester S-turn, ``is not considered feasible or appropriate.'' That is what the Corps of Engineers said. Now, the gentleman is saying that we did not follow an orderly process. Well, we did follow an orderly process. The orderly process rejected the widening and the straightening of the Tolchester S-turn by the Corps of Engineers. What we are doing here is interrupting, we are bypassing, we are leapfrogging the orderly process with this appropriation of $6 million for what the Corps of Engineers said was not a necessary project. Now, at this point I would like to wax a little bit philosophical with Justice Felix Frankfurter's statement, which goes and I quote, ``Wisdom so often never comes. When it does, we ought not to reject it merely because it's late.''”