Mark Begich actually said...

"You think about three quarters of a million, give or take, to start giving you the flexibility you need to get out into the field, and I think you are right."

"This is like 5-, 10-years easy, right?"

"You just hit on what my next question was going to be, and that is, do you think that the tools can be applied in legislation like this?"

"Thank you for your leadership. Thank you for your willingness to recognize Alaska is what I call every 2-week disaster that we seem to have because it seems like it never ends."