Markwayne Mullin actually said...

"We need flexibility if we are really going to go after the rural areas. It is an economic engine."

"One size does not fit all, and it will not fit all. And we need to give these States and these local municipalities and these rural waters flexibility to be able to do their job."

"Public-private partnership is something that might be able to work."

"But because the Federal funding has so many strings attached, and there are so many hoops that you have to jump through, a lot of these small towns, they just don't have the ability to do it."