Political Quotes

“What is shameful is when you know you have a model that works, that’s tried and true, that has results,” DeLauro said, “to not say yes to increasing the resources and the investments in this is morally irresponsible.”

It is your responsibility to get the money out of the door in a timely fashion, and if you can’t do this, we need to take a look, because Congress provides the authority for this.

“From the outset, I think there was a sense that, finally, we were looking at standing up a program that was specific to specialty crop farmers. And that’s incredible, because … nothing trickles down for them, and so this was really one of…

“Providers around the county were shocked by what was such an unpredictable action,” DeLauro said, thanking state leaders for leading that outcry in Connecticut.