On the recordJuly 9, 2014
This amendment, as the gentleman said, would eliminate the Denali Commission, which is funded at last year's level of $10 million in this bill. The Denali Commission provides infrastructure and economic development activities for some of the country's most rural and distressed communities. Regardless of whether it is one State or a region, the fact is the State is probably larger than any one of the regions that the Commission deals with. In a time of economic instability, communities can scarily afford to lose the millions of dollars in private investments leveraged by the Commission annually. Elimination of the Denali Commission would deprive these communities of many essential infrastructure and economic development projects. I encourage my colleagues to vote against this amendment. I yield the balance of my time to the gentleman from Alaska (Mr. Young).
