Eleanor Norton actually said...

"the money for WMATA, the stimulus money for WMATA is not in hand?"

"the issue is obligation."

"It would be such a tragedy if we had a series of audits that because we were trying to get jobs for Americans as quickly as possible that the prediction that nobody can get money out that quick withou..."

"The stimulus funds are calculated to get out fast, produce jobs immediately, and of course to get the work done the Federal Government needs to have done in the States and in the Federal Government."