"This is a major civil rights victory."
"we want to focus on the 380-some counties where poverty has been persistent for over 30 years, persistent and consistent with Representative Clyburn's ideas."
"You can have broadband, but if the downloads and upload speeds are not significant or are not sufficient, you can check the box, but you actually haven't improved the quality."
"The ability to have FaceTime and Skype and the ability to see our children and our grandchildren, incredibly important."
"I think we have the right vision. I think the vision that climate change creates opportunity, creates new profit centers for farmers can be embraced."
"Every single child in this country, in a childcare facility, in a school, wherever they might find themselves to be, every single child, I think, has to have the opportunity to have access to nutritio..."
"I am aware of the issues, Representative. I think it is important to point out that, the way these can be structured, there are very, very few--at the end of the day, very, very few farms that can be ..."
"We want to close that 50-percent gap."
"I think we do need to learn from the recent experience in COVID as to how we might be able to make the SNAP program and availability of benefits modernized and more convenient."
"As I discussed with Representative Fortenberry, you know, this is about making sure that this broadband is actually usable."
"We have to make sure we lift up the messaging in terms of American agriculture."
"Some people look at things as they are and say, why? Others dream of things that never were and say, why not?"