I am looking for people who are in the pre-apprentice category, largely women and people of color.
You are working with an agency that is overburdened in the first place.
Every last one of those buildings on Constitution, Pennsylvania Avenue, were built during the Great Depression.
I hope you understand, Mr. Guerin, part of my last question, that said I do not believe that you are going to be able to bring on even annui...
How about warning signs? Red flags scare me. By that time it is pretty bad.
The purpose of--we would not be engaged in this hearing, and you would not have this money except for one purpose, to create jobs.
The President does have to do it all at one time or go home; and he ain't going home.
I expect, frankly, that qualified minority journeymen and apprentices will be easily hired.
We have decided that there are so many Federal facilities that it would be impossible to locate this money in just a few of them.
Even as we were getting money for this program, we realized we were not going to get enough, and we put you at a terrible disadvantage.
I do not intend to offer any excuses. I am not going to say GSA made me do it...
There is a terrible cobweb. You can't break into it and break somebody out of it. Everything has to happen at one time.
I absolutely anticipate that once some of these guys get the job, even though there is every incentive to start, that you will be looking at...
I guess that, though, is really the atom bomb.
you requested that we find a way to speed up the process to construct this intercity bus terminal.
The stimulus funds are calculated to get out fast, produce jobs immediately, and of course to get the work done the Federal Government needs...
the money for WMATA, the stimulus money for WMATA is not in hand?
So wait a minute. So we are going to count it from when?
