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On the recordApril 26, 2017
That information--and I have gone way over, but that information is critically important because it is instructive to the extent that the federal government gets involved in funding or promoting any programs that you are going to be--you are naturally inclined to do it because of the subject matter, but we want to make sure that we are putting the limited dollars into the ones that have the most empirically based--positive results empirically based so that we--we are going to continue to struggle to have enough money even for the good ones.
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Thom Tillis
Republican · North Carolina

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Tillis emphasizes the importance of funding effective programs over spreading limited resources too thin.

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