We have a catastrophe at the border, from our perspective, and I think the evidence speaks for itself.

What are some of the things that we are currently doing to respond to those attempts from China to exert influence in our own Hemisphere?

I'm very concerned about China's influence in our own Hemisphere in South America.

I believe we can and we must do more.

Those programs include the Maternal Mental Health Hotline, the Innovation for Maternal Health, and the Screening and Treatment for Maternal Depression.

I am particularly interested in RMOMS program and how that works in conjunction.

I represent 24 parishes in Louisiana who are mostly rural, and so my heart is definitely with our rural communities.

I believe if you educate a child, you give them a future.

It is important to empower families with accurate and understandable, usable data about their students and their schools.

I am gravely concerned about our kids.

I think this legislation received a false narrative that we were going to be dictating curriculum.

If we don't have a secure border, we don't have sovereignty; we don't have a nation.

I am very concerned after COVID and the pandemic. In Louisiana, 4 in 10 Louisiana third graders can't read at grade level.

Just this past February, the Department of Energy released a report detailing how COVID-19 was likely the result of a lab leak in China.

I support options that allow parents to have control over what school best meets their needs for their family.

One area of great concern for my constituents--I represent 24 parishes in Louisiana--is the health disparities and access to regular and specialized care in my rural district known as the Delta region along the Mississippi River.

What I hear from them overwhelmingly is that they know that the federal funds are there.

As a member of this subcommittee, I would love to work with HRSA in investing in the health of the nearly 10 million people residing in the Delta region.