housing is absolutely critical.
We think that is a real growth model.
I think it is, not to belabor the point too much, but we are going to continue to ask these questions about consolidation and coordination, ...
We need to do a better job selling the Cooperstowns and the Walhallas, and there are some great recreational opportunities.
I will tell you, in visiting, people feel like these programs are disjointed, that all of a sudden, they will hear something from SBA that t...
For me, a lot of this lies in maximizing the availability of federal resources, maximizing the knowledge of federal resources and where we c...
I do not think there is any doubt that USDA Rural Development is one of our country's greatest success stories.
We are now working on an amendment that would correct and include those who were left behind in that effort.
I often say this, and I think it is true, with the exception of my partner on this subcommittee, we wake up every morning thinking about rur...
85 percent of our country's persistent poverty counties are in rural America. Poverty is not just an urban issue.
My great concern is that we will end up, even in states like North Dakota, being a place where people will only find opportunity in cities o...
I think we are failing miserably because we created a presumption that without a four-year degree, you will be an economic failure, which is...
I think it is interesting when you look around this podium here to see that there is not a state that is not impacted by disaster.
I think one of the great challenges here in terms of disaster relief is that the balance between wanting it to be self-contained and have no...
One of the criticisms that I frequently hear, especially of the SBA programs, is the criticism that you have--it seems like there is one han...
if we are going to see communities recover, we need to make sure that there is a possibility of recovery in a way that is maybe more humane ...
But we certainly appreciate the work that both of you do, and I am grateful, as is my State, for all of the assistance FEMA has given us as ...
We were pretty insistent that a provision needed to be placed that would prohibit SBA from collateralizing someone's home because then liter...
