James Oberstar: “I compliment our ranking member, the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Borski], for the splendid job he continues to do…”

“I compliment our ranking member, the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Borski], for the splendid job he continues to do as our voice on the Subcommittee on Water Resources. I want to express my appreciation to the chairman, the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Shuster], and to the gentleman from New York [Mr. Boehlert], chairman of the Subcommittee on Water Resources, for their cooperative spirit as we worked our way through this legislation. Initially, as introduced, I was opposed to H.R. 2567. However, due to the willingness of the chairman, the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Shuster], the chairman, the gentleman from New York [Mr. Boehlert], of the subcommittee, to work with us both in making substantive changes in the language of the bill and in committee report language to further clarify bill language, we have, I feel, addressed our concerns, certainly the concerns that we have had on this side of the aisle, and those that the administration had, and, as a result, I do not oppose its passage. I am not for it, but I do not oppose it. What really troubles me about where we are today and what we are doing today, is that for the second time in this Congress, our Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure is on the floor with a bill considering an item under corrections day procedure on an issue where there is either nothing or relatively little to correct or something that is in the process of being corrected by the administration.”