Jeff Duncan: “I just want to comment to the gentleman from Alabama, I certainly agree with the points he is making. I might make a…”

“I just want to comment to the gentleman from Alabama, I certainly agree with the points he is making. I might make a couple of comments in addition. Any highway project at any time probably has been called pork by somebody. So we almost have a choice of doing no highway construction at all in the country or doing projects that possibly somebody, some small minority someplace, is going to call pork. But we have got to do this construction. All of this legislation we deal with, whatever subject it involves, it has to get specific in many different ways. But we run the risk if this amendment passes that if we get specific in highway legislation from now on, it would put this money back on budget and it would start being used for all these other things, foreign aid and everything else, instead of being used for highway construction and the purposes for which it was designated, which is what the American people want. So I rise in opposition and join the gentleman from Alabama in his opposition to this amendment.”