Dina Titus

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 grant programs under this umbrella.

It is unfathomable to me that the President would want to eliminate the only federal agency that is specifically focused on local and regional economic development.

Aren't we just throwing money down a rat hole trying to catch up with a 15-year-old plan?

So the Saudis are paying for all of this?

It just doesn't seem to me to make any sense that you want to raise the fee from $5.60 for a one-way trip to $6.60, and then take away $1.6 billion to go to the deficit.

I wonder if you are satisfied that there is enough oversight and security there, especially with a country like Saudi Arabia that we really--I don't trust.

I just don't really think that is fair to the people who are flying into my district for a little holiday.

How do you keep tabs on them after they have gone through the program?

How do you screen the people that come into that program from Saudi Arabia?

I think he is moving us absolutely in the wrong direction, not only by pulling out of the Paris Climate Accords but by not recognizing climate change in the national security strategy.

We have seen--I think it is American Society of Civil Engineers who rates our infrastructure. We always get a bad grade on that.

I don't want to do anything that is going to hurt tourism, because it is such a key to our economy.

I represent Las Vegas, so you can imagine how important travel and tourism are to us.

We have not paid much attention to the movement of people. And by people I mean tourists.

We know that we need comprehensive immigration reform, we would like to see it bipartisan.

You have to include your allies as you move forward in any kind of negotiation

President Trump seems averse to international cooperation and multilateral agreements. He seems to prefer go-it-alone, shoot-from-the-hip, mano-a-mano type of diplomacy, such as it exists.

We are in the midst of the world's worst refugee crisis, and yet the administration just recently announced that they were going to lower the already record low number that we were accepting from 45,000 to 30,000.

Can you, very specifically, provide to the subcommittee a detailed justification or the project worksheets under which PREPA is requesting reimbursement for power restoration in Puerto Rico?

I, once again, urge passage of this legislation and all the bills that we have brought before you today from this subcommittee. I want to thank our chairman, Mr. Barletta, for working with us across the aisle on these bipartisan bills. Mr…

I thank our colleague Mr. Cuellar for helping explain why it is even more important for us to name this building for Judge Kazen. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

I thank my colleague, Mr. Butterfield, for sharing with us that amazing life story. Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to support passage of this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I say again that we are most impressed by the two people whose names are on this Federal building, and I urge my colleagues to support the designation. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

Current policy is so bad and relations so abominable that the OAS recently unanimously passed a resolution condemning our behavior.