Matt Cartwright: “We have to make sure that money is being spent well, if it is being spent at all.”

EDA has an important role in spurring job creation and economic diversification.

I thank Ranking Member Larson for yielding. I wonder if he would submit himself to a few questions and engage in a colloquy. Will the gentleman yield?

We have to talk about this and this is where the rubber hits the road when we talk about the distribution of fentanyl into this country.

You know that in northeastern Pennsylvania, our economy has been bumping along since the decline of coal mining, since NAFTA, which bestowed benefits and burdens across our nation, but unevenly across our geography.