It just doesn't seem to me to make any sense that you want to raise the fee from $5.60 for a one-way trip to $6.60, and then take away $1.6 billion to go to the deficit.

I just don't really think that is fair to the people who are flying into my district for a little holiday.

If we were to expand the eligibility of the Economic Development Administration to include the problems caused by automation...

Counties across the country urge your continued support for the Economic Development Administration which helps us build prosperity from the ground up at the local, regional, and national levels.

I look forward to working with the chairwoman on critical issues within our subcommittee and continuing the tradition of this subcommittee's ability to work in a bipartisan fashion.

Thank you for having me here today. We appreciate your attention to this vital program.

I represent Las Vegas where it is all about the service industry, and you would think you need people to perform those jobs, but that is not the case.

So the Saudis are paying for all of this?

Know that there is no real appetite from this chair to move in that direction. We are much more interested in reauthorizing, improving, strengthening, and if anything, bringing some of those other grant programs under this umbrella.

I am here asking you not to spend money.

Aren't we just throwing money down a rat hole trying to catch up with a 15-year-old plan?

That tends to kind of correlate with red districts politically, so that would make it easier for us to work across the aisle to try to shore up some of these projects for the EDA.

How do you keep tabs on them after they have gone through the program?

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I think he is moving us absolutely in the wrong direction, not only by pulling out of the Paris Climate Accords but by not recognizing climate change in the national security strategy.