There has to be an explanation for this.
I don't think anybody on the floor in another debate knew what they were talking about.
I have a hard time fathoming how areas like this go through recessions except with horrible suffering--that is the only word I can use for i...
I think the Subcommittee is going to need to look into how we can make sure.
I will alert you of this. We have held this reauthorization hearing, and I don't know when this bill will be marked up or moved forward, and...
We are anxious to begin the reauthorization process and are pleased to have your testimony.
But the bill had at its major focus for the kinds of spending you concentrate on, which is public infrastructure, creating jobs.
We are very pleased with this Agency. We know what it has done. We know why we continue to focus on infrastructure.
I am not going to deal with a program whose major focus is public infrastructure without finding it out on my own.
The EDA grant was very important, Mr. Chairman, because when a historic structure burns you just can't slap some bricks back up there.
I think 25 percent of the project is being paid for by an EDA grant, much to the great joy and delight of the community.
There has to be something in this to make people understand it.
I have a feeling that in understanding the value one would have to get beyond the jobs created at that moment.
If we are going to reauthorize what amounts to a public works agency, we have to understand it.
These cartels are not just operating in Mexico, their reach stretches far and wide.
These cartels are not just operating in Mexico. They reach -- their reach stresses far and wide.
Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and we, I believe, continue ...
It's a question of being afraid to confront it, sit down and have a calm conversation.
