I think one of my responses to that might be that this is not a new phenomenon, but a relatively later developing over the course of, say, the last probably 5 or 6 years certainly where we've recognized what's really going on with better…

So the recommendation there would be for us to go back to our respective health officers and make sure that we're gathering statistics, making the case for the greater targeted resources.

One of our concerns is that some of the grant funding and other things are formula funded, but we want to see it targeted obviously to the States that have some of the deepest and most devastating problems.

The Department remains committed to working with Congress on the steps we are considering to improve the ability of the Department and USAID to achieve critical foreign policy goals.

the administration has zeroed out the CDBG funds, another source of local economic development funds

I would say, and I think I emphasized this in my statements to you, in our State of West Virginia, we are just now getting EDA to really seed some very good projects.

I think that rural states like mine are particularly challenged. It needs to be available and affordable for all, and it's not.

NOAA continues to expand its supercomputing resources to meet the agency's rapidly growing high performance computing demands.

Manufactured housing is a critical source of unsubsidized, affordable housing in America and a critical component of housing in rural America.

I am interested in more efficient considerations so that we can make decisions more quickly that are of national interest.

At the same time, I think they are very achievable, and some of it is just kind of foot dragging or it seems the process becomes very, very slow.