On the recordJune 18, 1998
I support this $21 billion bill. It is not a perfect bill, but it is a very good bill. We worked under very extreme conditions in order to get the bill to the point that we have. This is a balanced bill. We did our best to accommodate everyone's priorities and projects. We did not make everyone happy. We tried to make sure that we had a balanced approach so that States could meet their needs. We did not get all the cooperation that I would like to have had from the administration. They cut $1.5 billion from water projects. This left us with projects unfinished, left us with projects that simply needed to go forward. So we had to rearrange this pot to the point we are now here. So I recommend this bill to my colleagues.
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