[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 83 (Friday, May 17, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H3931]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             COMMENDING THE FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Madam Speaker, I rise to commend the Federal Railroad 
Administration and the Trump administration for putting a stop to the 
wasteful Federal spending on California's high-speed rail boondoggle. 
This will save nearly $1 billion that can be used for anything else to 
help Americans' transportation system.
  At a time when tax increases on every mile you drive are being 
contemplated ostensibly for our highway needs, how can we keep wasting 
dollars on a project that ``has repeatedly failed to comply with the 
terms of the 2010 agreement and has failed to make reasonable 
progress''?
  It is no longer even a high-speed train project nor does it even 
connect San Francisco to L.A. but, instead, terminates in an almond 
orchard somewhere north of Bakersfield.
  It has tripled in price since 2008, when put in front of the 
California voters, and is still at least $70 billion short of the $100 
billion tripled price or more. That $70 billion will not be coming from 
this Congress.
  Let's channel these hard-earned tax dollars into highways people 
need, want, and can actually use, or water storage, or just about 
anything else.

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