Mark Begich actually said...

"the community has been consistent in only wanting to assess one alternative, which is a road."

"Thank you very much for everything you guys are doing."

"But I want to make sure that, one way or another, it may be a very short letter, it may be a very long letter, but there will be a response to the correspondence they sent in to you the beginning of J..."

"I just want to give you credit on that, because these are monies owed."