"I think 25 percent of the project is being paid for by an EDA grant, much to the great joy and delight of the community."
"The EDA grant was very important, Mr. Chairman, because when a historic structure burns you just can't slap some bricks back up there."
"I am not going to deal with a program whose major focus is public infrastructure without finding it out on my own."
"We are very pleased with this Agency. We know what it has done. We know why we continue to focus on infrastructure."
"I have a feeling that in understanding the value one would have to get beyond the jobs created at that moment."
"If we are going to reauthorize what amounts to a public works agency, we have to understand it."
"How do you intend? What kinds of projects? What methodology are you going to use for choosing how you will spend that money?"
"Thank you very much, Ms. Walters."
"But the bill had at its major focus for the kinds of spending you concentrate on, which is public infrastructure, creating jobs."
"We are anxious to begin the reauthorization process and are pleased to have your testimony."
"I will alert you of this. We have held this reauthorization hearing, and I don't know when this bill will be marked up or moved forward, and reauthorization occurs once in a blue moon."