Alan Lowenthal: “Mr. Nguyen is one of my current prisoners of conscience.”

There were applications for over $1.3 billion in Federal funds, while we only gave out a total of $239 million.

The program is oversubscribed by a factor of 5.4 to 1.

I look forward to the testimony from our witnesses.

I thank my colleague, Representative Cartwright, for introducing this important bipartisan legislation and working to build such an impressive coalition of support. I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on H.R. 7283, and I reserve the…