House Proceeding 07-23-09 on Jul 23rd, 2009 :: 2:29:30 to 2:31:35
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John W. Olver: does he support a whooping 1,384% for the federal railroad administration? i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. olver: we have in this legislation, and in the recovery act earlier this year, we have added enormous additional responsibilities to both secretary of transportation, our good former

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Speech By: John W. Olver

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John W. Olver: colleague, very popular former colleague, now secretary ray lahood. in order to administer those properly and do what they are told to do under the recovery act, to get all of those moneys out and moving, for instance, they have gotten some 300 applications, thereabouts, for

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John W. Olver: the high speed rail moneys, the high speed rail and inner city passenger rail programs. you've got to have people to look at those programs, to assess them, to decide which ones are the better ones, to move the paperwork so we will be able to actually have those projects out where they're

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John W. Olver: going to get people to quickly as it's possible to do. the same thing is true for the federal rail administration. the secretary's office has certain key responsibilities added to his. it is not nearly as much as the increase of responsibilities that have been given to the

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John W. Olver: federal rail administration, which is really where the first assessment and grading of all of the projects that have come in. it's an enormous program that is there, but it is part of what was exp happen in order to make the

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John W. Olver: high speed rail and inner city passenger rail programs work. so i have no apology whatsoever for additional administrative assistance for making those things happen. if we hadn't done that, we would have been killing the programs before they could get