Jerry Nadler: “this bill, which has many good features, unfortunately is going through this House in great haste. Very few people have…”

“this bill, which has many good features, unfortunately is going through this House in great haste. Very few people have had the opportunity to read it, since I do not even know how many copies are in print. One of the problems with that, one of the problems with the fact that the bill was not printed until an hour or two ago is that people can slip things into this bill with other people not knowing about them. There is in my district a project, a huge boondoggle which wants to waste a few hundred million dollars. We have had language in every appropriations bill in this House for the last 5 years saying no funds herein appropriated should be spent on this boondoggle. The Porkbusters Coalition, headed by the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Neumann) and the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Minge) have said this is the worst project. NBC TV featured it on Fleecing of America, but it is a project Donald Trump wants because it will put money in his pocket. It puts more money in his pocket. It will spend $300 million to move a highway we just finished rehabbing for $90 million, solely for the purpose of getting it out of the way of sightlines of Mr. Trump's new buildings. We oppose this. Suddenly there is money in this bill for this project. It appeared in it last night. We just found out about it. It was put there by a Congresswoman whose district comes nowhere closer than 75 miles, and no one knew this. No one can comment on it.”