04/21/2009
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"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."
"I want to make sure that it's a fair system that's competitive, but maybe in a rural-to-rural versus rural competing against--Kotzebue competing against Los Angeles, we lose."