Crafting the Congressional Budget Resolution is a statement of our national priorities, and I appreciate the opportunity to offer my views on what those priorities should be.

Continuing to adequately fund the programs that mean the most to these communities is vitally important to our long-term success.

Arbitrarily cutting our Federal spending back to fiscal year 2008 levels... is in my view a meat-ae approach to fiscal discipline.

I urge the Committee to authorize robust funding for programs that have proven to be successful in strengthening our local communities.

I think, as I mentioned, the hundreds of our local leaders who have converged in Washington, D.C., earlier this month, and they visited all of their Members of Congress, bipartisan, they were to a person supportive of these kinds of grants.

Helping our children thrive is an investment in our future.

Crafting the congressional budget resolution is a statement of our national priorities.

I urge the committee to authorize robust funding for programs that have proven to be successful in strengthening our local communities and creating greater opportunities for all of our citizens.

CDBG funds have supported economic development, job creation, and facility needs for the most disadvantaged in Hawaii.

I take it that you have concluded that when you provide resources for quality early education, that you certainly set the stage for school success for these children moving forward.

the most important thing we could do to really turn around our education system in terms of dollars put in and the returns that we get is pre-k, pre-k, pre-k.