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James Whittier Parker: “One of the problems we had was the DOE made decisions, especially in the last few years, where they have maintained…”

On the recordJune 19, 1996
One of the problems we had was the DOE made decisions, especially in the last few years, where they have maintained their bureaucracy here in Washington at the expense of programs that we were sending back home. They have drastically cut the amounts of money that would go to the States, especially from the weatherization side and also from our State energy officials, and those go directly to our constituents. That is the biggest problem we have got. The DOE, we are just talking about equity here. We are not talking about cutting out the programs that DOE has. We are just talking about being fair about it and having more go to the State, make up some of the difference as far as the losses that we have had because they have cut us so much more drastically than they have cut their own bureaucracy in Washington.
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James Whittier Parker
New York
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Addressing budget cuts by the Department of Energy affecting state programs.

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