I agree, and I think Florida has been a good example of that.

My concern is that if this essentially annihilates this particular supply of credit that is being used by millions of Americans every day, what is the recourse?

It seems to me that we need to narrow the Fed's mandate on this when we know that we have a common goal.

Now we know that Wall Street is doing just fine and Main Street is not.

Mr. Speaker, last month I had the privilege of meeting Lisa and Chad Smith and their charming son Jamil during a visit to Newland, North Carolina, in the Fifth District. The Smiths are the proprietors of Forage Soaps, which began in 2014…

Madam Speaker, I rise today to make special mention of Pat Bradford, who recently stepped down as publisher and editor of the local paper she founded, the Lumina News. The Lumina News has served as the voice of Wrightsville Beach and its…

Mr. Speaker, you can divide this country into two classes of people, not Republican and Democrat but the political class and the rest of the country. The political class is doing better than ever. Eleven out of 20 of the richest counties…

As we said yesterday at our press conference, Chairman Burr and I trust each other and, equally important, we trust our colleagues on this committee, that we are going to move together and we're going to get to the bottom of this and do it…

This is not innuendo or false allegations. This is not fake news. This is actually what happened to us.

Not being critical, but we've done nothing to Russia when they've made aggressive moves.

He usually knows my sources before I do.

It is the head-meets-the-heart policy. When I was Speaker of the House in North Carolina, I said that the policies I like the most were the things that have an enormous impact on an individual and their families and saved a lot of money.

We need to look for ways to be more productive with the funding that we are producing.

Let us increase the funding. Let us look at the pipeline for drugs.

This is a perfect example of an issue where head and heart can work together.

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Thank you Mr. Chairman, and thank you to FCA Chairman Tonsager and President Halverson of CoBank for being here.

The fact that you came here because you think that NIH funding is at risk and that is a real problem, and it is a problem that we need to solve by just simply making this a priority.