Communities like mine, quite frankly, were left behind because we have the highest concentration of community-based financial institutions.
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Highlighting the neglect of her community in the distribution of PPP funds.
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We have some of the lowest Medicare reimbursement rates in the country which is something that we have been working on a lot to address and fix.
In your testimony I know you mentioned how the ongoing trade war with China is hurting two industries that are heavily served by railroads, both agriculture and manufacturing, which we feel pretty strongly in Iowa 1 right now.
I think that many of my colleagues here today, including Dr. Joyce, can speak to how the economic opportunities and challenges in rural communities that they represent have changed over the last decade.
Just like my district, farmers and small businesses here are the backbone of the local and state economy.





