Political Quotes

“The reason why this should be supported is because we are not talking about an isolated county but we are talking about a region of America that has been severely disadvantaged. Indeed if my friend from Wisconsin wants to come to our committee and say that there needs to be a Great Lakes Commission, or whatever you would like to call it, to accomplish the same kind of thing that we are doing for the Appalachian Regional Commission, I welcome you to do that. I will support this kind of an effort. No matter where we find these pockets of poverty in America, we should be doing the kinds of things that we are successfully doing in the Appalachian region. I would be very happy to support him in extending this kind of a program to other pockets of poverty across America. It is a great idea, and I welcome the gentleman to come to our committee.”