Jim Inhofe: “Arizona has a 40 percent growth rate, dramatically greater than the average, which is 35.6 percent. Arizona is…”

“Arizona has a 40 percent growth rate, dramatically greater than the average, which is 35.6 percent. Arizona is comparable to Oklahoma in many ways. But Arizona actually gets $40 million more than my State of Oklahoma. If we average that amount over TEA-21, it averaged $463 million. It goes up to $800 million at the end of this time and it reaches the donor status that is desired. In the State of Texas, the average over the 6-year period of TEA-21 was $2.1 million. It is the third highest growth rate in the Nation. It is the second highest amount of money, second only to California. It is part of the formula. Let me say something about the formula. Everyone is deriding this formula. We went through the same thing 6 years ago. They did not like the formula because everyone wants to get something more than perhaps they are entitled to under any formula. That is human nature. We made a commitment, working on this formula for over a year, that we would stay with the formula.”