Our working lands programs are oversubscribed.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

We are bringing Members of Congress here to see what you all see everyday, to hear your desires, receive your input, and therefore make better laws and policies when we are in the halls of Congress back in Washington.

We need to make sure that we are developing markets and that we are developing a marketplace that creates that future for beginning farmers.

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

The biggest challenge young people have getting into agriculture is availability of land and availability of credit.

Thank you so much, Senator Hyde-Smith.

Our working lands programs are oversubscribed.

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

As your Congressman, I am pleased to bring the Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee to your auditorium.