Peter Welch actually said...

Skyrocketing gas prices, due in part to Wall Street speculation, are crimping her budget and household budgets across the country.

Welch points out the impact of rising gas prices on the budgets of rural Americans.

03/07/2012

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And can you comment on what steps can be taken in order to treat rural America as the first-class citizen?

I hope that means that we will be able to focus on some of the other efforts that require some bipartisan cooperation like the homework gap ...

Can we have some assurance that the rules that will be promulgated will take into account the extraordinary challenges that have existed in ...

Anything we can do to help fill that gap is going to help students and the tethering you describe is ideal and could be really useful.