House Proceeding 07-23-09 on Jul 23rd, 2009 :: 3:47:05 to 3:49:10
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John W. Olver: and do everything i can to fight for my constituents and fight for my district. and despite the fact that i'm not a chairman or on one of the exclusive committees, i was able to convince the committee to put this money in because this is good use of taxpayer funding and is going to create jobs and grow the economy in two states across

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Speech By: John W. Olver

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John W. Olver: nine counties and i yield the remainder of my time to chairman mr. olver: i thank you for your careful defense of the job that you do as a representative there for because a few moments ago, the

3:47:44 to 3:48:06( Edit History Discussion )

John W. Olver: gentleman from arizona had spoken about the distribution of earmarks and how it seems to favor ce committees. and i wandered over to see and i suspect and i and my ranking member are in trouble for the nature of that chart. but as a part

3:48:07 to 3:48:27( Edit History Discussion )

John W. Olver: that the gentleman mentioned that maybe the federal agencies can do a better job of distributing funding mor equitably. however, one really ought to look at what has been the historical record and fairly recent historical reco in fiscal year 2007, we included no earmarks in this bill

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John W. Olver: the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from arizona. mr. flake: may i inquire of the the chair: 2 1/2 minutes. mr. flake: i yield 30 seconds to the gentleman. mr. olver: i thank gentleman. in fiscal year 2007 we included no earmarks in this bill and gave complete discretion to the

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John W. Olver: secretary of transportation. remember, that was the year that the majority tipped. but we still had the president -- the previous president in place. the result of that was, the secretary of transportation distributed over $1 billion of

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John W. Olver: discretionary money to five