Unfortunately, there is no $4 billion surplus. There are $4 billion worth of IOUs in the harbor maintenance trust fund.

Which is an organization where imaginary countries get as much clout as we do.

I always like to encourage the use of two by fours since I have a number of manufacturers in my district.

I mean, these are things that have been through environmental review?

We can't assume if we build it they will come.

We don't have to give in to any international covenant to have that.

The harbor maintenance tax is probably a sore point with each of the four members here.

If we are looking at Canada as a competition, you still have your local fees per container.

I think it is a very positive bill. I would hope that the funding would be allocated based on the percentage of the freight that comes through the ports so that is something you might want to consider.

Thank you. Just to follow-up with Mr. Asplund, you very definitively said that the current fee structure is causing diversion.

All right. Just one of my major criticisms of the so-called stimulus. Thank you for reinforcing my prejudices.

So we would revisit the imposed contract and work conditions is the position as you understand it.

We are saying, when we invest so much, we create so many jobs.

We have an infrastructure in crisis in our Nation.

Henry Paulson set this up, I mean, really, coming over on a Thursday night and saying the world is going to collapse and then going out to the public and saying if Congress doesn't pass this in three days, the world economy crashes…

Henry Paulson set this up, I mean really, I mean coming over on a Thursday night and saying the world is going to collapse and saying and going out to the public and saying if Congress doesn't pass this in three days, the world economy…

We're borrowing, ultimately, $810 billion. What happens when the next crisis hits in the not-too-distant future? When Wall Street wakes up from its celebration, and it sobers up, and they look and see, we did nothing for the fundamentals…

We're borrowing ultimately $810 billion. What happens when the next crisis hits in the not too distant future? When Wall Street wakes up from its celebration and it sobers up and they look and see we did nothing for the fundamentals in…

The whole thing stinks. And it just is so reminiscent of the run-up to the war just stampede of -- I mean, Congress is really easy to stampede when they are up for election.

The whole thing stinks. It's just is so reminiscent of the run-up to the war and the stampede. I mean, Congress is really easy to stampede when they're up for election.

Secretary Paulson has submitted a simple proposal to Congress. This is it, three pages. It's about a billion dollars a word.

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