04/06/2016
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"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."