Yesterday President Biden stood in this very room and addressed a Nation during the State of the Union that was looking to the kind of unity, strength, and commitment that we heard last night. We saw a President who is concerned as our…

I want to give a shoutout to New Mexico Highlands University, one of the HSIs in my district.

Hispanic or Latino producers constitute about 34 percent of the farms back in New Mexico. Yet in 2022, they received only 9.5 percent of guaranteed loans and 22 percent of direct loans.

I appreciate that and I will make sure we are doing more along those lines as well, to partner with you and get that word out and see what we can do to also do our part to increase applications.

I absolutely agree with you, that strengthening the employees was a good thing.

As we build a better America, we need to make sure that we are creating the opportunities so all of our students can realize the possibility of their dreams, right?

Hispanic or Latino producers constitute about 34 percent of the farms back in New Mexico. Yet in 2022, they received only 9.5 percent of guaranteed loans and 22 percent of direct loans.

I appreciate that and I will make sure we are doing more along those lines as well, to partner with you and get that word out and see what we can do to also do our part to increase applications.

when we invest in our workers, we can do something we haven't done in a long time--build a better America.

Thank you very much, Madam Chairperson Lofgren. And, once again, thank you for holding this important hearing.

It has been, you know, over a year since that harrowing attack on our Capitol by Trump supporters seeking to stop the constitutional counting of the electoral college votes.

I am glad to hear there is progress, even though there is so much work that we need to do.

I really appreciated your poignant written remarks about how democracy is simultaneously the only legitimate authority capable of helping the surveillance capitalism but also a prime target.

I truly appreciated your comments about how protection of our personal data held by the government is linked to people's trust in our government.

The ways they can do that are--you know, The Markup did a great investigation right after January 6th showing the two different Facebooks that Republicans and Democrats were seeing.

I can tell you that this issue comes up a lot as I talk to my constituents.

I want to focus a bit on how data privacy or the lack thereof impacts our elections and our democracy.

Our communities must be at the table in making decisions that affect their quality of life, their health, and their futures.