Carl Levin actually said...

"So basically it was a joint decision to go ahead with this program and these incentives, is that correct?"

"Did the amount of the incentives dramatically increase?"

"The merry-go-round deals required Metro to organize and pay for thousands of truck shipments between its own warehouses."

"In order to have the economic advantages that they saw in this deal, and if they were going to live up to the deal, they had to get into the queue."