Doug LaMalfa

So please, anybody on the panel that was--you are nodding your head, too--send your thoughts along as I have run myself out of time here.

Your thoughts on what is working and is not working is so helpful to us as we try to make these policies stronger.

The delivery of the farm bill's conservation programs is a proven model that we know works and will continue to be important for the long-term success of our farmers, ranchers, growers, and the rural areas nationwide.

Recent legislation that we have passed here that included the Broadband DATA Act to help better simplify this information.

It will help boost the high-speed internet in those mountainous areas and help with smoke detection.

I am hopeful we can build on these reforms and maintain the emphasis in support for working lands, programs, and farm infrastructure.

The wires are indeed a critical issue in our forested areas like that.

If climate change or then more heat and dryness that we are seeing over the years continues, we are going to be fighting this for years to come.

We cannot have the fires that we have had. I have lived in Washington State for 20 years.

I like to tell people what we don't plant now is what you don't eat next year.

These aren't dumb people. These are already people out in the forest that are constructors or forestry people.

Why the heavy-handed threats that I get anecdotal conversations about?

No, but those folks would be keeping up with their own if they were allowed to, especially private.

This needs to be dramatically increased.

Forest management has reached a crisis level, and we must act accordingly and act now.

The Forestry Title in the farm bill must be used to increase the pace and scale of forest management.

Are your offices open yet?

Farm bills aren't easy to pass around here. It is tougher every 5 years, it seems, to get it done.

As we contemplate the next farm bill and reflecting upon the elements that were in the 2018 Farm Bill, what would you look at would be some improvements on modifying the feeding programs, et cetera?

But there is still accountability the taxpayers would demand and expect, right?

So you don't have to reinvent the wheel with a new application? Just change the dates, pretty much, and it will be much quicker?

We want American-grown food that is nutritious from our ag sector or the processing that comes from that to be on the plates of people that are receiving taxpayer-driven assistance

We are expending tax dollars and would have a say in a lot of other things

Let me pose questions to Mr. Cherrier. You mentioned the importance of preserving baseload generation capacity, which I wholeheartedly agree with.

I think I would like to first lead off, when we leave out on the overall grid, the overall renewable portfolio, we have to recognize that hydroelectric power that is so abundant in many parts of our country has to be recognized as truly…