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Where you start out in life doesn't have to determine where you are going to end up or just how far you can go.

The citizens should be demanding that not be allowed to happen.

I have to just take exception to your suggestion that the Federal Government requires States to have articulation agreements.

Time is more valuable than money and, I mean, you can always replace money. You cannot replace time.

We actually proposed the funding formula that way to the State legislature.

Thank you, Madame Chair, and I want to thank our witnesses for being here today.

I am happy that the Fiscal Year 2020 Labor HHS Appropriation bill includes much needed increases in funding for HBCU's.

Should USDA move forward with its plans, we ask that you give our great State of North Carolina your full consideration.

We understand there are plans underway to possibly relocate the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) agencies of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to outside of Washington, D.C.

HUD was created more than 50 years ago by President Lyndon Johnson who intended the new agency to be a major tool in combating poverty.

We do not recognize the same--and I'm saying it with you and this administration, I said it with the previous administration, the whole deliberative, predecisional thing, we don't recognize.

During your time at HUD, you have been willing to take on a few tough fights, and I want to speak to the example of the suit that, under your direction and leadership, HUD filed against the New York City Housing Authority.

We also know that older workers are consistently given the short end of the stick.

I want to start off by mentioning that I am a proud co-sponsor of H.R. 1230, the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act.

Blaming amorphous entities or concepts such as the economy as structural barriers is a cop-out.

The economy has created 7.1 million jobs that are unfilled.

Employment opportunities abound, but the skills gap persists and grows.

The promise of higher education is broken, and Federal law perpetuates this failing system.