William Orton: “It is questionable whether the State benefits from it, but the State does receive money to build it, yes.”

I think it will remove criticism from the amendment and in fact eliminate one of the objections that many people have had to this particular bill.

It is different from the ARC. The ARC is direct money going to communities to pay for highways, for the kinds of----

In fact that adds up to a total according, to the Joint Economic Committee, of $216.1 billion in cuts. If in fact you only have $122 billion provided for in tax cuts, you are $94 billion short.

The gentleman really raises the crux of this whole debate. If, in fact, this body believes that we should go out and expand the concept, create more regional commissions, fund it with Federal dollars, and put the money into those regional…