"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."
"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."
"the administration has zeroed out the CDBG funds, another source of local economic development funds"
"Manufactured housing is a critical source of unsubsidized, affordable housing in America and a critical component of housing in rural America."
"We still have many unmet needs. And so I would like to elicit from you an affirmative that we can keep working with HUD to try to figure out what further damages we might have through the State and wi..."
"You are obviously brushed up on it and I am going to talk about it too from a small State."
"Is that a declining number or is it going up? Is it more solvent? I mean we have had to infuse some monies over the last several years into that to keep it going."
"It seems as though the Department is making this a little bit more difficult. We have some specific examples. I would just like to work with you and the agency to try to iron these differences out."