Steve Ellis
Steve Ellis
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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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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.
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It almost looks like a spoils system between various agencies.
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When the Atkins Diet became a rage and people stopped eating carbohydrates, we didn't do something to protect pizza parlors.
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There is little doubt by making it safer to develop in high risk areas by promising to fund people to rebuild through flood insurance, we have made people feel it is safe to move into these areas.