Rick Allen

In my few remaining seconds, last Congress I worked with Representative Stefanik to include language in the CTE bill that would authorize Federal funds for integrating arts and design skills into CTE programs.

I'm Congressman Rick Allen. I'm from the Twelfth District of Georgia, which includes Augusta.

Would it be immigration reform, and I am not talking about just dealing with Mexico.

There is grave concern about labor shortages in this country.

Bottom line, something has to be done.

Frankly, a lot of people, of course I represent them, agriculture is the number one industry in my district, so I understand it, I understand the importance as far as national security of our farm program, and why we need to make sure that…

Our farmers are really the true stewards of our land.

As the son of a farmer, I understand to a great extent what we are talking about today.

I believe that the American people, just like health care, they want choice.

I think that probably, too, we should understand that really health insurance benefits came out of the business community.

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I think this would have been a good model.

Get the Federal Government out of your way

What has amazed me in my short time here is, where we have intent on a law, that somehow it gets totally misinterpreted by the time it gets to one of the Departments.

But again, the questions was, it looks like we have two methodologies here, the law versus the rule.

It is good to have you here this morning.

I congratulate you on your work.

My biggest concern is the growth of this economy and, you know, the economy, it's not growing.

The Federal Government is not going to support abortion services.

I see those people struggling every day to make ends meet and do work in their fire departments as volunteers.

This grant should be pulled immediately and under no circumstances should it be extended.

We need to be talking about metrics and true accountability here.

You can say you have a culture of accountability, but I am sorry to say you have not described that very well today in my opinion.

Service is indeed the rent we pay for living on this earth.

Enough is enough. The corporation needs to be held accountable for the way it spends taxpayer dollars, and that's why we are here today.