"the people in Alaska refer to the system of honey buckets, which sounds sweet. It is not sweet at all."
"I don't want to be rude here, I only have so much time. Shouldn't we in the formula prioritize need?"
"that issue should trump everything."
"That is just completely unacceptable. As American citizens, we should all care about that."
"I want to get your commitment to come on up to Alaska and actually see and walk the ground with me, this port and other aspects of our infrastructure sometime soon."
"It moves 90 percent of all goods that come into Alaska, 90 percent. So very important that way."
"So nobody is going to go, well, you know, the Port of Alaska just got this big award, so we are not going to give them a grant, because they just got something. You are not going to do that?"
"I would like your assurance that this award is not treated by the DOT as an award in lieu of any of the future grants."
"My constituents, as you can imagine, were happy about the litigation finally looking like we have prevailed. But now they are worried that someone is going to take it out and use it against us."
"This is just very difficult for my constituents to have to deal with. And I think it is unfair."
"If Joe Biden had a Republican administration that came in on year one and issued 21 executive actions against Delaware, he would be as mad as I am."