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             CALIFORNIA'S HIGH-SPEED RAIL IS OFF THE RAILS

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, I heartily applaud Secretary Duffy's 
decision the other day to repeal and rescind the $4 billion that the 
Federal Government has put in at the end of the Biden administration 
for the high-speed rail in California. Indeed, it has been a clown 
show. The thing is off the rails with any kind of goal it was ever 
going to meet.
  It was supposed to have been completed by 2020, and at best now it 
would be completed by 2040, 2045, with just one segment between 
Bakersfield and Merced completed by 2033 they hope.
  Instead, let's move that $4 billion to something useful such as 
expanding State Route 99 in California, I-15, I-5, Interstate 395, 
Interstate 80. That money could be used to repair roadways designated 
as farm-to-market roads or State Route 152. By raising it a little bit, 
we would be able to add more water supply to the San Luis Reservoir or 
the bridge over I-5 over the Shasta Lake. In doing so, that would allow 
us to raise the level of that lake and provide much more water for the 
State of California in order to grow crops which would bring inflation 
down on the food prices by rechanneling money into something useful 
instead of something useless like this clown show that is the high-
speed rail for 20 years.

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