05/14/2018
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"I will tell you, in visiting, people feel like these programs are disjointed, that all of a sudden, they will hear something from SBA that they had not."
"My great concern is that we will end up, even in states like North Dakota, being a place where people will only find opportunity in cities over 50,000, 60,000 people."
"85 percent of our country's persistent poverty counties are in rural America. Poverty is not just an urban issue."
"I often say this, and I think it is true, with the exception of my partner on this subcommittee, we wake up every morning thinking about rural America."