Very good. Well, thank you. We appreciate you and your staff's hard work.

We appreciate it. Again, fragile economy; we just want to make sure that access to credit is not impaired even more.

We have had a problem with VA administrators being there for short periods of time or detailed to other places, really having a situation where you have got a leaderless VA.

The VA CAREERS Act is a crucial piece of legislation aiming to reduce vacancies and staffing shortages at the VA.

Very good. That is so important, you know, things, little things that are huge things getting countries, the regions at just the world food price, you know, as opposed to not having the competition, you know, it is so important.

With approximately 3 million veterans living in rural communities and more than half of them over the age of 65, it is imperative that the rural medical facilities are properly staffed.

It is imperative that we hire and retain the best and brightest talents that this country has because our veterans and their families deserve the highest levels of care and support for the sacrifices that they have made in protecting our…

Food security is national security for all of our countries.

Right. Very good. Speaking of infrastructure I know that DFC is focusing on working with the private sector to promote infrastructure investment in an effort to offer a good alternative to Chinese predatory lending.

In the 2024 budget, the State Department has a lot of money for infrastructure, ports, things like you are describing; do you all work together?

When will you start accepting ABAWD waivers?

We have got to stop the out-of-control partisan spending. We need less regulations, not more.

I certainly would agree with that, and those are areas that, again, I think we could really get some real bang for the buck.

The President has been very insistent on returning to a number of harmful, overreading regulations.

I just do not think it holds water.

My point is that when you are going to spend $300 billion, you come to Congress and you say, 'This is a problem. We need to address it. Let us work together to sort it out.'

Will the producers be made aware of how the data that is generated from projects they are involved in, how it may be used?

At the end of this farm bill process, I would like to go back to rural Arkansans and tell them that we have put policies and programs in place that will improve their quality of life and give their children and their neighbors' children…