In the 2024 budget, the State Department has a lot of money for infrastructure, ports, things like you are describing; do you all work together?

I strongly urge you to withdraw the proposal or completely rework it.

Thank you all for holding this really important hearing.

The markets have been very resilient, and again, we want to allow our farmers and others to manage risk.

In reality, those costs will be passed down to customers via higher banking costs, and I am concerned that Arkansans will have to subsidize Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank's deposits.

With approximately 3 million veterans living in rural communities and more than half of them over the age of 65, it is imperative that the rural medical facilities are properly staffed.

We have had a problem with VA administrators being there for short periods of time or detailed to other places, really having a situation where you have got a leaderless VA.

Who will control the data, and who is responsible for its protection as well as the protection of the producer privacy?

Will the producers be made aware of how the data that is generated from projects they are involved in, how it may be used?

We have got to stop the out-of-control partisan spending. We need less regulations, not more.

I certainly would agree with that, and those are areas that, again, I think we could really get some real bang for the buck.