House Proceeding 07-23-09 on Jul 23rd, 2009 :: 4:08:10 to 4:13:10
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John W. Olver: deficits, maybe it's time to say no to one project today so we can say yes to our children's future tomorrow. i reserve. the chair: who claims time in opposition? opposition. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. olver: i rise in opposition to the amendment.

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Speech By: John W. Olver

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John W. Olver: let me make a few remarks about the general process and then about this amendment and then i'll have a little bit more time. as indicated in the report to this bill, the funding for earmarks in the transportation and h.u.d. appropriations bill in 2010 has been cut to 50% of

4:08:48 to 4:09:10( Edit History Discussion )

John W. Olver: the 2006 levels. i would remind the gentleman that in 2006, in the 2006 budget, both republican majority in both branches and president of the united states as well. also this year, chairman obey introduced new rehe quirmentse to -- requirements to shen at

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John W. Olver: the appropriations process is open, transparent and worthy of the public's trust. the committee vetted each request with the agency under which whose jurisdiction and earmark would fall. also, each request has been publicly disclosed on members' web sites so everyone can know exactly what has been asked by

4:09:32 to 4:09:54( Edit History Discussion )

John W. Olver: every member and what ones are being funded. i oppose this particular amendment here because funds here, the $2 million in funds are being used to replace the doyle drive where the new

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John W. Olver: parkway connectinghe golden gate bridge and natural recreation area. federal funds would be used to provide design work and right-of-way construction. doyle drive is the only street connecting the two counties and

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John W. Olver: indicated a post-recovery. doyle drive was built the year i was born and reaching the end of its useful le. the absence of shoulders would create dangerous operating conditions and result in serious accidents. the drive is ranked as the fifth

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John W. Olver: worst bidge in the nation and on the measure of structural insuffiency. 100,000 drivers, 18,000 transit riders use that doyle drive every day. so for those reasons, i think this is a very appropriate earmark. then i would like to comment and

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John W. Olver: i oppose again the amendment. i would like then to use the rest of my time to point out something that i did a little bit earlier, which was to point out that at the end of the carter administration, there was $1 trillion of national debt.

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John W. Olver: that took us from the presidency of president washington all the way 190 years to 1980 to get $1 trillion in debt, of national debt. 12 years later, the national debt was over $4 trillion, more than four times, more than

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John W. Olver: quadrupled in that 12 years. that's the 12 years of the greatest debt increase by any percentage-wise. in the presidency of president clinton, the debt went up another 1/3, from 33% in that eight years, which is quite

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John W. Olver: dest compared what it then went up during the previous administration, the years from 2007 -- 2001 through 2009. the debt went up from $5.3 trillion. i said $5.4 the last time i made

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John W. Olver: this, but in any case rgs it has gone up over $10 trillion by the end of the bush administration. that's another doubling. the rgest actual number of dollars of debt increased in trillions of any time, but not the largest percentage. it was only a doubling there. where the gentleman gets the

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John W. Olver: idea that the debt that will be tripling under the present president, i cannot imagine. it will take at least seven more years for us to have any idea what the level of the debt will be at the end of that time. he might be surprised, we might all be surprised that it will more modest than the kinds of