Mark Begich actually said...

"there is no better producer of jobs than the focus of what you do every day in the different departments"

"I'm nervous about waivers. Just so you know, because that--you know, when you have a huge project come along in a small rural area, it's a hard--it's hard to compete, to be very frank."

"How does this compare to the TIGER grants, or are they two separate--or is this kind of the merging of it into a more formal, sustainable program?"

"I got a little nervous, to be very frank with you, because in rural states, sometimes just getting--you know, I can't put multimodal in Kotzebue, Alaska."