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Thank you as well, Representative Krishnamoorthi, for the insightful testimony.

We have got a huge opportunity to embrace this digital leap and to make sure that the funds available are pointed and meet their intended recipients' goals.

Clean and safe drinking water, as well as wastewater treatment, are critical parts of rural development.

I commend you for bringing up this idea of what we call placemaking or this ecosystem of livability.

Your input will be critical as Chairman Bishop and I work to responsibly fund the USDA, the Food and Drug Administration, as well as the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, and the Farm Credit Administration.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And as we have worked together for so long, you know me well, yes, sir, I do have a few opening comments, but, first of all, let me commend you for your leadership and your opening remarks as well, they are…

This is an emerging priority, bipartisan priority.

Yeah, we need rural broadband, and that is very important.

Are we thinking critically about how to identify the gap and close the gap?

That was perfectly on cue, perfectly timed.

So I think we need a simple set of statistics that is really definable around--forget the complexities.

The harder, more subjective aspects of livability and well-being are harder to put a number on

What we are talking about here is the most human of things: well-being, opportunity, solidarity

I think we need to change that equation.

We throw a lot of money at it, but do we really know what we are getting?

My own experience of reviewing it was again a program set up very rapidly to meet emergency food needs.

How are we defining the gap? How are we closing the gap?

I think this is important. Because as we are seeing more and more conglomerate corporate control of our economy, there is an incumbent responsibility on these major retailers that actually participate with us in pursuing the types of…