DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND FOR 1995 HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS ONE HUNDRED THIRD CONGRESS SECOND SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND DELACROIX DAVIS III, RICHARD E. EFFORD, CHERYL L. SMITH, and LINDA J. MUIR, For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, Washington, DC 20402 ISBN 0-16-044443-8 KF26 A667 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin, Chairman JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Mississippi, Vice Chairman NEAL SMITH, Iowa SIDNEY R. YATES, Illinois JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania W. G. (BILL) HEFNER, North Carolina BOB CARR, Michigan RICHARD J. DURBIN, Illinois ALAN B. MOLLOHAN, West Virginia JIM CHAPMAN, Texas MARCY KAPTUR, Ohio DAVID E. PRICE, North Carolina PETER J. VISCLOSKY, Indiana THOMAS M. FOGLIETTA, Pennsylvania ESTEBAN EDWARD TORRES, California GEORGE (BUDDY) DARDEN, Georgia NITA M. LOWEY, New York RAY THORNTON, Arkansas 1994 7A JOSEPH M. McDADE, Pennsylvania JOHN EDWARD PORTER, Illinois JIM KOLBE, Arizona DEAN A. GALLO, New Jersey BARBARA F. VUCANOVICH, Nevada RON PACKARD, California HELEN DELICH BENTLEY, Maryland CHARLES H. TAYLOR, North Carolina ERNEST J. ISTOOK, JR., Oklahoma' JOSÉ E. SERRANO, New York ROSA L. DELAURO, Connecticut JAMES P. MORAN, Virginia DOUGLAS "PETE" PETERSON, Florida JOHN W. OLVER, Massachusetts ED PASTOR, Arizona CARRIE P. MEEK, Florida FREDERICK G. MOHRMAN, Clerk and Staff Director TESTIMONY OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND OTHER INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1994. WITNESS HON. BART GORDON, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF TENNESSEE Mr. CARR. Welcome. We will open our hearing. Today, we are delighted to have many of our good friends with us. This is going to be a hearing primarily concentrating on the testimony of our friends and colleagues in the Congress, and we have a very ambitious schedule today. I think if we go the whole day, we are going to be here until late this afternoon. And in the interest of time, why don't those Members present have a seat at the table. We are not going to have any great formality here, and when you have given your testimony, if there are no questions and we move on to someone else's testimony, you are free to leave. We will keep rotating, so that we do not spend a lot of time waiting for people to come to the table. We will just keep going. First on my list is my good friend and colleague from Tennessee, Bart Gordon. Welcome. Do you have a prepared statement? Mr. GORDON. Yes. Mr. CARR. We will submit that for the record and invite you to just give us the highlights. Mr. GORDON. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I hope I am first on your list, but I do thank you for your past courtesies, this committee's courtesies and the staff. And also, let me again congratulate you I think on the new thoughtful criteria that you are placing on us to present to you I think better justification for these projects. To reciprocate for that, I will be brief. I have submitted my testimony. I have also submitted to the committee the investment criteria that is suggested as well as a variety of maps and the feasibility studies. I am here on three projects; all of which have also gone before the authorizing committee, two of which are the second phases of ISTEA previous-authorized projects. (1) |