Steve Chabot: “Reclaiming my time, since 1982, there has been almost $1 billion, $850 million in all, spent for this. And relative to…”

“Reclaiming my time, since 1982, there has been almost $1 billion, $850 million in all, spent for this. And relative to jobs, back in 1996 there were 1,500 jobs. It is down to below 300 right now. So every one of those jobs is basically being subsidized by the American taxpayer to the tune of $150,000 per job. So what we are trying to do here is be responsible to the taxpayers of my State, Ohio, and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Texas and New York and Vermont and all the other States who right now are donor States who are sending these dollars up to Alaska to sustain those few jobs. Now, I am all for timbering, I am all for allowing roads to be built; just not at taxpayer expense, not when the taxpayer is getting ripped off.”