Political Quotes

“Dear Mr. Chairman: We are writing to request that $15 million be provided in the Fiscal Year 2004 agriculture appropriations bill for the Resident Instruction and Distance Education Grants Program for Insular Area Institutions of Higher Education. This program was authorized by last year's Farm Security and Rural Investment Act (Sec. 7501; Public Law 107-171) to strengthen instruction, curriculum and research in the food and agricultural sciences. With this funding the program would enhance the quality of teaching and learning at our nation's land-grant universities in the U.S. territories. Collaboration between faculty and students at institutions of higher education in the U.S. territories with colleagues in the U.S. mainland is particularly challenging given the distance between them. Current fragile economic conditions in the U.S. territories also compound the challenges posed by their geographic isolation.”