02/23/2009
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"Counties across the country urge your continued support for the Economic Development Administration which helps us build prosperity from the ground up at the local, regional, and national levels."
"Know that there is no real appetite from this chair to move in that direction. We are much more interested in reauthorizing, improving, strengthening, and if anything, bringing some of those other gra..."
"That tends to kind of correlate with red districts politically, so that would make it easier for us to work across the aisle to try to shore up some of these projects for the EDA."
"I urge your continued support for the Economic Development Administration which helps build prosperity from the ground up at the local, regional and national levels."