02/02/2016
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"The focus of my remarks this morning will be on one particular set of issues, and it has to do with the Federal Government's role in the health, the fiscal and social and economic health of America's ..."
"There is nothing they could do to stop those external trends from having a devastating impact on their community."
"A small-town--the quality, the sustainability of a small town in a rural region, the vibrancy of that little town is just as important to the economic sustainability of that region as, say, the sustai..."
"I would argue that the people who live there are still citizens of the Federal--of the United States and have some right to expect us to respond to them."