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What steps can we take, Mr. Arkin, to ensure that smaller communities like Griffin, Juliette, Garden City, McDonough in Georgia are set up to succeed when they apply for these funds?

I think that could be a very fruitful area for additional analysis, and I will follow up with you and your team about trying to get some more recommendations that the Federal Government can take but also best practices and advice for these…

I hope we can revisit that rate in this year's farm bill. I certainly will be doing everything I can to see to it that that happens.

I take that to mean that this is evidence that the Marketing Assistance Loan Program is working well for peanut farmers.

I look forward to supporting this program in this year's farm bill.

I appreciate your answers. I always appreciate GAO's work, and my office works hard to make these localities aware of these opportunities.

Through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law we in Congress established a Railroad Crossing Elimination (RCE) Program.

This is not just a matter of convenience. It can be a matter of life or death.

Let us work together on that.

Language access for competitive Federal grant programs is something that I think warrants some more attention from GAO.

I think that could be a very fruitful area for additional analysis, and I will follow up with you and your team about trying to get some more recommendations that the Federal Government can take but also best practices and advice for these…

What advice do you have for small localities who seek opportunities such as this one?

I hope we can revisit that rate in this year's farm bill. I certainly will be doing everything I can to see to it that that happens.

I look forward to supporting this program in this year's farm bill.

I take that to mean that this is evidence that the Marketing Assistance Loan Program is working well for peanut farmers.

I think one of the uniting factors in Washington, DC that I have seen amongst moderate folks... it is war on the Federal bureaucracies.

I wanted to make sure that we had oversight in every Committee that we had in Congress.

This is the priority that this Subcommittee and the Full Committee should be focused on.