According to the administration, a key element of this infrastructure proposal is to empower decisionmaking at the State and local level because these are the officials who know best the infrastructure needs of their own communities.
Esty emphasizes the importance of local decision-making in infrastructure funding.
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If they cannot see--the VSOs who are on the front line are unable to see the legacy claims, then we are not really getting the benefit--the promised benefits of this IT innovation.
I hope we can take the lessons that are being learned there and make sure that those are used every time with forward-going programs.
I believe it is a model that for large-scale policymaking that other Committees--this Committee and other Committees--should look to duplicate.
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