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I appreciated your remarks during the hearing about USDA's $75 million investment in technical assistance for underserved producers.

There was intelligence somewhere in the system about potential violence, but it just never got to the Capitol Police.

Intelligence isn't any good unless it's shared.

I think we classify too much.

The fact remains that if we had the Southern border under control, we would be using the $850 million designated for testing to buy more rapid tests.

That makes no sense to me and seems very shortsighted.

Well, I will tell you, having visited the Southern border in late March, testing was being done, but people had been there for weeks at a time with no testing, and there were people, adults who were released into the community with no…

I will tell you that our staff's investigation found that $850 million out of the testing budget and another $850 million out of the allocation for the stockpile were instead used to deal with the crisis at the Southern border.

I just think it is important that we see it and we have to try to rise above this kind of behavior.

I don't believe that we are in the position that we are in now due to a lack of funding, but rather a lack of planning.

Has any of that money been used for non-testing related purposes at the border?

Over the past 2 years, Congress has appropriated $82.6 billion specifically for testing.

I hope that there is a close relationship between your Department and the Architect of the Capitol.

We have to have people that are thinking the unthinkable and saying, okay, what happens if?

Please convey the deep appreciation and thanks from all of us that we care about what they do.

I hope that extends to the intelligence side as well.

Are we working on preexisting coordination and communication plans so that we do not have to make it up on the fly?

I have been surprised there has not been more discussion of physical security. It is pretty easy to secure a building these days.