Richard Burr actually said...

"There would be a great inconsistency in us offering preservation or maintenance dollars to some and not all."

"There was a tremendous lack of confidence as to whether the Federal Government would do anything other than stand by and watch these historic landmarks disintegrate and deteriorate."

"Let me, if I could, recap what the bill does. It creates a 3-year pilot program."

"I value the Michigan lighthouses, value the North Carolina lighthouses. I have a real problem anytime we look back at things that we did and forget the reasons that we did them."