I again urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on this. We are simply saying that there is a procedure that this Congress set up. That procedure was a study. Taxpayer dollars funded that study in order to see if this project actually merits congressional support. Well, that study... is not made public. We have not seen the study. We don't know if it is good or bad. It may be good... But for goodness sakes, if we are spending taxpayer dollars on a study, then shouldn't we at least find out what the study says? That might lead us in the right direction of spending, as this bill would authorize, up to $50 million without really knowing the ramifications.
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The speaker is urging colleagues to vote against a bill due to lack of transparency regarding a taxpayer-funded study.
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