There is a lot of difference among those things.
That is a long time line.
why couldn't that kind of work be already underway?
And basically all they need to do is to show you that they can do the job. They are not competing with other transit systems, are they, for ...
I guess that is the nature of the beast here.
Well, maybe I am overly anxious, but it does seem to me that some of that work--we are coming on into May--could have been started and I am ...
You have no idea how many funds are obligated as of now?
What assurance can you give us that those funds will be obligated within those 90 and I guess 120-day timeframes?
I want to see the timeline within two weeks for spending the $4.5 billion dollars for Saint Elizabeth's.
But above all, thank you for the way in which you are tracking these funds and making good on your promise that this money had to be used or...
I commit to you, Senator, and to this entire Committee that I will work with personnel in the Department...
What we did was to go to the Senate, frankly, and indicate that this was a classic FDR project.
I do agree with you, Mr. Chairman, regarding how we must use the stimulus exercise, shall we call it.
There are going to be howls unless we are able to say more about what we are doing with training.
I intend, Mr. Chairman, to make this a requirement in the new reauthorization funds.
I mean, that is the most outrageous thing I have ever heard.
The notion of fares going up, my impressions is that WMATA has withheld fare increases over long periods of time, and then had to raise fare...
WMATA may have to take the lead on this.
