07/07/2014
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"we were building about 500 new units out of 811 with Federal dollars when I came to Congress, in part because of legislation that I helped write, where now, over the last 3 years, we built 7,500 units..."
"the damage to the overall Federal Treasury, in the lost jobs, the lost tax revenue, the increased Medicaid costs, the increased unemployment costs, pretty quickly wipes out the savings to the agency."
"This sort of has been a cause and crusade of mine for years, to put some teeth back into our Buy America requirements."
"Just as an example, one of those tradeoffs is that the World Food Program in and around Syria is cutting off aid to refugee families that do not live in the actual refugee camps."