During COVID, did you all have the ability to cut through some of that stuff?
Nobody cares if they are Democrats or Republicans, and this Committee is a very, very bipartisan group.
I recently joined Senator Peters in introducing the VA Peer Review Neutrality Act.
We have worked for several years to be able to find a way to be able to deal with this foreign ownership of land issue.
It requires review of agricultural real estate purchased by certain foreign entities through the CFIUS process.
It broadens disclosure requirements for land purchases made by foreign entities through the AFIDA process.
It restricts Federal assistance for foreign-held real estate holdings.
We need to better understand the problem before we can provide a solution.
Whatever we do must respect and protect the private property rights of U.S. citizens.
There is not many things in Congress where there is a lot of consensus, and I think that there is real consensus, both i...