Steve Ellis
Steve Ellis
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The Corps of Engineers and Congress are partners in crime. We have this process where the pork barrel dictates that we spread the money over the 535 mouths to feed that are Congress rather than putting our resources where it makes the most sense.
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Congress and the SBA appeared to be more interested in shoveling the money out than they were in actually making sure that they were helping people affected by the 9/11 attacks.
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They're asking for a $40 billion blank check. It is a huge amount of money that would be essentially front-ended as appropriations, and then driven independent of Washington oversight.
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They've hijacked the bill to spend money on their toys. You have the V-22, which isn't even ready for fielding and it's getting money in the supplemental.
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The passing got better. Our focus is going to continue to be our passing. We need to be more accurate. We have a lot of growing and maturing to do. The good thing is we're young and going to just get better.
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You had various fiefdoms established in the contracting process.
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We're going to work on serving tough and passing tough, things we've been doing in practice. We just need to bring it to the game.
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We sold out, ... The midrange scooters are gone.
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We already hear of people saying, 'gee I like my hybrid but what's next. I want to go beyond gasoline.
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We have a clear example here that earmarks caused harm. Because we siphoned off funds to go to parochial projects, we have put people in harm's way and exposed them to greater risk. Congress needs to put its house in order and target their funding to where there's the greatest need,
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New Line is kind of pushing the envelope.
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We have real needs that we have to meet for rebuilding in the Gulf Coast, and with our tight budgets, this is almost a zero-sum game. And now we're taking about moving a railroad that's been rebuilt already? That doesn't make sense.
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We live in a semi-desert area, and every year there will be fires.