Political Quotes

“I think the key issue on this amendment is the uncertainty of it. They have an analysis by the Federal Highway Administration. We have seen an analysis by the Federal Highway Administration and it is unclear. The Federal Highway Administration says that this amendment is going to cut funding in this bill by $3.7 billion, which means that many States would lose money. I think because of the uncertainty of it, as the gentleman from Ohio said, let us work in conference to fix this problem. There is not enough money in this bill. I think all of us are disappointed that we could not get more money into this bill to fix the donor/donee State problem. But, as I said, the uncertainty, the numbers that I show here, a State like California is going to lose $550 million; Illinois, $346 million; Texas, $275 million over the life of this bill. Again, I come back to the uncertainty of this. Let the committee get into conference, let us try to work out our problems, but I would urge a "no" vote on this bill today because of that uncertainty.”