Political Quotes

“the gentleman's amendment reduces funding for the Northern Border Regional Commission by $13 million. The Northern Border Regional Commission is a Federal-State partnership focused on economic and community development within the most distressed counties in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. Except for New York--but New York in the north is different than New York in the south--many of these States don't have very many Members of Congress. When you look at Vermont, I actually have more citizens in my district than the State of Vermont does in its entirety. The Northern Border Commission really does focus on places that often get ignored simply because those States don't have enough people in them to warrant the kind of attention maybe Pennsylvania gets because of its number of people, or California. The NBRC was created by Congress in 2008 to provide infrastructure and economic development assistance to projects in counties that had varying degrees of economic and demographic distress. These investments lead to new jobs being created. I have seen what it has done, for instance, in the Appalachian Regional Commission.”