I believe the State of North Dakota would be eligible to receive CDBG funding under title II of this bill, provided the administration concurs with the congressional designation of the appropriation as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, and submission of an official budget request to this end.
Discussing eligibility for CDBG funding for North Dakota under a specific bill.
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Well, I think it is. I mean any time a group of people are denied rights and struggle for their rights, that's a civil rights movement.
I know the tide is changing. I can see from poll results where the support for same-sex marriage used to be minimal. It grew. It grew and grew.
Of course, it is exactly the same. It's a right that all Americans have and no reason why gay and lesbian people ought not to have these rights too. These are universal rights.
Full equality means enjoying all of the rights that everybody else in the country enjoys. If everybody else in the country enjoys rights one, two, three and four, you have got to enjoy those rights too.
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