John Hoeven actually said...

"we're going to have to find ways to trim and prioritize."

"I'm very hopeful that, as we do, we're going to get into a process where we go through that normal budgeting process."

"Okay. If you could have them give us that cost, that anticipated time to build it, and then what the resulting savings might be, that would be helpful."

"Well, sometimes you have to go through a series of steps which may make sense or, based on the statute, now that you've been doing this you may want to say, 'You know, if we didn't have to do a couple..."