03/12/2019
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"I too would be opposed to that cut."
"You cannot have it both ways. You cannot make a determination that you do not want to provide the money and then say, my God, you are losing money."
"It is important to point out that the request was made for the implementation fund, but it was denied by the Congress."
"the closures, as I understand it, will respond to the pressure of dealing with flat funding you pointed out, which has been eroded by inflation."