Ralph Hall: “I have more problems with the amendment than I do with the author, and maybe the author and I can talk here and then get…”

“I have more problems with the amendment than I do with the author, and maybe the author and I can talk here and then get together and work some things out. Actually, my problems with it is that we are told that it amends the biofuels subtitle and creates a university based research and development competitive grant program in a geographically diverse manner. That's a pretty long sentence there for me to try to figure out exactly what it means. But as I go down through it and see, in awarding the grants, it says that 'priority should be given to institutions of higher education with all of the following.' I want to point out these 'following,' and I know that the author is probably going to be able to explain them to me. But I remember one time in the Texas Senate when we had a man stand up and he was trying to pass a bill as to where all the voting machines had to be constructed, and they all had to be constructed in a county in Texas, and he described the county as being in excess of 20,000 but not in excess of 20,003, and his county had 20,002 in it. Now, I don't know if your labeling of these narrows it down to one institution or two institutions. I know there aren't any in Texas, because we don't have any Indians in Texas. But could you give me a little explanation on that?”