Thank you, Mr. Cline, for appearing today before this Committee, and also for your leadership on this bill.

It is a real argument, I think, for resilience going forward, anticipating the scope of storms that we may have to contend with.

These weather events, with climate change are getting more and more frequent, and it is more and more urgent that we try to make our systems resilient.

We need to look at USDA as one of the ways to help our water systems understand how to do stuff in a proactive manner.

I want to thank you for having me here to speak to what I believe is, in my mind, the most important thing out there--water, safe drinking water.

These weather events, with climate change are getting more and more frequent, and it is more and more urgent that we try to make our systems resilient.

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Do we need to make any changes to give USDA more flexibility to upgrade the resilience factors to accommodate the reality of the more extreme weather events that are occurring?

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As our country is facing these wild weather events, climate change, more severe and frequent storms, we have got to make sure that the water in our communities is safe and available.

we have made it a major priority about broadband in rural America for this Committee to focus on

I want to thank you for having me here to speak to what I believe is, in my mind, the most important thing out there--water, safe drinking water.

It is a real argument, I think, for resilience going forward, anticipating the scope of storms that we may have to contend with.

Do we need to make any changes to give USDA more flexibility to upgrade the resilience factors to accommodate the reality of the more extreme weather events that are occurring?

As our country is facing these wild weather events, climate change, more severe and frequent storms, we have got to make sure that the water in our communities is safe and available.

These well-functioning water systems, as you all know, are absolutely essential to rural communities, the health and the safety and the economy of rural communities.

It is huge for our local community, as well.