"Gary Edward Hoffman" is a former Tackle (American football)/tackle in the National Football League who was born on September 28, 1961 in Sacramento, California.

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We got to this situation not overnight. We're not going to turn it around overnight.

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Of all the needs we face, none is greater than our bridges. You can have a road failure; that's not catastrophic. A bridge failure is.

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Do we have other bridges like this in this area? Yes. We know this is a critical situation. This is a dramatic situation. We don't want this to happen again.

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If they love Electric Earth and what we've done there, they are going to love this place even more.

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We're looking at any adjacent box-beam structures with a bituminous deck and a condition rating of structurally deficient in any one of three categories--the deck, superstructure [beams] and substructure [piers and back walls].

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If we break into this uproar after every comment -- and I know that you're rooting for your team -- we're not going to get anything done.

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Our bridges are going to be a test bed for the rest of the nation.

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Given the outcry here tonight, we have to step back and consider what we're doing here. Maybe there's a Plan C out there.

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The analysis we've done -- the rigorous structural analysis based on the last inspection report -- indicates that this bridge should not have fallen down on its own accord without something else happening to it.

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