Sherwood Boehlert: “Mr. Chairman, I rise to proudly and enthusiastically endorse this measure. I will tell you what it is all about. It is…”

“Mr. Chairman, I rise to proudly and enthusiastically endorse this measure. I will tell you what it is all about. It is about my favorite four-letter word and you can use this in polite company: jobs. This is essentially a jobs bill that is using taxpayer money, users' money, for wise purposes to improve our basic infrastructure transportation network within the United States. There is not a State or a county or a jurisdiction in America that does not already have preapproved plans for worthy, and let me emphasize worthy, transportation projects; but they do not have the resources to go forward with them. This bill provides the resources. Let me add as a co-leader of the Fair Coalition, along with the gentleman from New York (Mr. Nadler), my colleague, Democrat he, Republican me, working very hard in support of the basic equity that is contained in the base bill, and that is to provide resources based upon need. There are some that would change the formula rather dramatically, and I oppose that, not just because it would not work to New York's advantage, but it would not work to the Nation's advantage.”