It is one of the tools that is used efficiently in my State, along with all of the other job creating programs that we have talked about, to create jobs in the private sector, and that is what we ought to be doing. That is a good use of Federal funds. I support the EDA. I think that is what this amendment is about. I urge defeat of the amendment.
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