I appreciate your testimony. Thank you for joining us today.
I guess I am also interested in--you tell me that you communicate with them, what do they say?
I know the National Rural Water Association well enough to know that I assume that your request would be additional doll...
Fifteen percent of the proposed area of service is the requirement for the loan?
I look forward to exploring that.
This issue of the lesser prairie chicken or endangered species, and now the more recent clean power plan, what is wrong ...
Thank you. My time has expired. We will have another round.
For those of us who grew up in rural areas, it is a lifestyle we cherish and hope to preserve for our children.
On my first trip to Kansas, I had the opportunity to visit Emporia, and along with Senator Jerry Moran, recognize USDA R...
Do you have any sense that Rural Development is advocating for a position beneficial to the repayment of their loans and...
That requires us to have the best information possible to make those decisions.
We want to make certain that the money the taxpayers provide you is well-spent.
We do have some concerns about the public policy benefit of an action like a partial prepaid loan.
We believe that increasing the population limit to 20,000, with a priority given to smaller communities, would provide a...
We think that is part of it. That is part of what we try to do as well.
I just want to make sure that we were not out-Kansaned the gentleman from Oregon.
I appreciate your comments in regard to the nature of Congress working in a bipartisan effort.
If a question is directed to you or to Rural Development, we would appreciate if we could have a response back within 4 ...