Small towns and rural places are creative, entrepreneurial, diverse, and wonderful places to live and to work and to raise a family.

We held two hearings together in this Subcommittee, and then we also sought comments from the public.

If you do not have a safe, affordable place to live, nothing else in your life works, not your job, or your education, or your health.

Hearing from you is extremely important. As the people closest to the work, you know best what is working and what can be improved.

The Title I reference prices do not match up with the cost of that production. It is really not a true safety net.

I know that all members of this Committee share the goal of passing a bipartisan farm bill reauthorization.

I would also like to thank Senator Rounds for his partnership on the Rural Housing Reform legislation that we announced this morning.

We need to make sure that whether it is the reference prices in there or other triggers that reflect today's circumstance.

We have got to find some way to make sure that we can draw young people back to this industry.

It assures our American people that they are going to have their pantries available, food to fill their pantries, at a reasonable cost.

Our working lands programs are oversubscribed.

Everybody has been saying today that everything is local, and one size does not fit all, and those FSA offices need to support that.

We need to protect our small farmers, our large farmers, and every farmer in between.

Small towns and rural places are creative, entrepreneurial, diverse, and wonderful places to live and to work and to raise a family.

We held two hearings together in this Subcommittee, and then we also sought comments from the public.

We have a serious shortage of housing in this country, especially in rural communities.

Thank you so much to you and your staff for working together with us on today's hearing.

I would also like to thank Senator Rounds for his partnership on the Rural Housing Reform legislation that we announced this morning.