Katie Porter: “I would intend, as does the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Obey], to do everything we can to provide a higher funding…”

“I would intend, as does the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Obey], to do everything we can to provide a higher funding level for the Older Americans Act programs in the conference. As the gentleman said, the Senate has been armed in their budget allocation with a significantly higher amount of funds to work with, and we will not know until we get to conference what the level is for both Houses. But within those numbers, we will do our very best to fund these important programs.”