04/21/2009
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"What is being done now hurts the quality of life, the ability of people to get on, because there is so much damage around."
"The total backlog is about $2.1 billion."
"Mr. Nadeau, the FHWA ER program faced more than $1 billion backlog in projects even before Hurricane Irene struck."
"These are kind of Hobson's choices, in many ways."