I think we are failing miserably because we created a presumption that without a four-year degree, you will be an econom...
I think it is, not to belabor the point too much, but we are going to continue to ask these questions about consolidatio...
housing is absolutely critical.
if we are going to see communities recover, we need to make sure that there is a possibility of recovery in a way that i...
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 opp...
I often say this, and I think it is true, with the exception of my partner on this subcommittee, we wake up every mornin...
I will tell you, in visiting, people feel like these programs are disjointed, that all of a sudden, they will hear somet...
For me, a lot of this lies in maximizing the availability of federal resources, maximizing the knowledge of federal reso...
I do not think there is any doubt that USDA Rural Development is one of our country's greatest success stories.
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...
But we certainly appreciate the work that both of you do, and I am grateful, as is my State, for all of the assistance F...
One of the criticisms that I frequently hear, especially of the SBA programs, is the criticism that you have--it seems l...
We were pretty insistent that a provision needed to be placed that would prohibit SBA from collateralizing someone's hom...
I think one of the great challenges here in terms of disaster relief is that the balance between wanting it to be self-c...
With SBA funding for small business, how would--given that this law is in effect, how would you then implement this prov...
Thanks for your entrepreneurship. It is a great story and we want to see more of that, not just in North Dakota, but acr...
I have a special particular concern about its impact, the disproportionate impact it would have on smaller video provide...
