"So it was a joint decision to go ahead."
"If they lived up to the contract, is my question."
"It is a 2-year wait. That is the answer."
"So basically it was a joint decision to go ahead with this program and these incentives, is that correct?"
"The merry-go-round deals required Metro to organize and pay for thousands of truck shipments between its own warehouses."
"If they chose to live up to a contract, do not most people you deal with honorably live up to their contract?"
"You insisted in that contract that they would pay a penalty if they did not put their metal into another Metro warehouse."
"But you moved it to another warehouse, sometimes 200 feet across, and the result of that was it stays in your warehouse but it also lengthens the queue."
"These deals were so important that they were taken to Metro's board of directors for approval."
"And jointly decided upon. Is that correct?"
"Thank you, Senator Baldwin, for your great involvement in so many issues involving consumers, as well as this one."