"the money for WMATA, the stimulus money for WMATA is not in hand?"
"So wait a minute. So we are going to count it from when?"
"There is a lot of difference among those things."
"That is a long time line."
"why couldn't that kind of work be already underway?"
"And basically all they need to do is to show you that they can do the job. They are not competing with other transit systems, are they, for this money?"
"I guess that is the nature of the beast here."
"Well, maybe I am overly anxious, but it does seem to me that some of that work--we are coming on into May--could have been started and I am a little concerned."
"You have no idea how many funds are obligated as of now?"
"It is scandalous that the Federal Government provides a pittance for transit service to the national capital region."
"I am concerned that very often the really indispensable work that the IGs perform are performed after the fact."