The story you told is repeated across the country.

I am just trying to get the chairman's attention for just one moment if you will indulge me.

That is way too late, and we need this data much faster.

We are going to need this data sooner based upon the dictates of the previous law that is being implemented now.

This is counterproductive, and it is wrong.

I agree with the vision as well. And I think we need to tell the story loudly and clearly, as you are doing and as I am trying to do and the chairman is doing, about the power and greatness of American agriculture.

I truly believe farmers are the original stewards of the land, and I believe they have an important role to play in the climate change conversation.

Any time you are dependent on a single country like we are with China, we are at risk.

Rural broadband is more than wires laid and money spent. It is about the meaning of that process.

Well, let's all keep thinking critically on the question, because, again, I think we are in a transformative moment in this regard.

I do think they have the foundational expertise to perhaps be a substantive participant in that internal discussion.

Let's do it in the middle of the country. Let's do it right here.

This is an emerging priority, bipartisan priority.

Only, Mr. Chairman, to thank you for your probing and thoughtful questions here and for running this hearing so smoothly.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Again, I am so grateful for your leadership, your willingness to host this first hearing with the Secretary of the new administration.

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

I would like to see 'made in America' on the prescription bottle. I would certainly feel better.

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