Rae Oliver Davis: “I respect greatly the work of the chairman and the ranking member to craft I think a very strong bill overall. We face…”

“I respect greatly the work of the chairman and the ranking member to craft I think a very strong bill overall. We face problems in protecting our rural communities. I believe the three of us all have many rural communities that face challenges. Working in another committee, we've faced challenges in protecting rural housing grants for affordable housing programs to make sure they're not subsumed by the large urban areas in the States. And I'd ask the gentleman if he would consider in this conference process finding a way to segment or protect, if not in the form directly of the CEDAP dollars, but to make sure that a mechanism is considered to protect our rural communities and small towns to have access to this needed equipment.”