My district is seriously impacted by structural racism.

I must imagine you are working with NC DEQ.

the $140 million is absolutely necessary. It is on top of his priority list.

Thanks so much, Mr. Chairman. Good morning, and thank you so much for being here to ensure our producers have consistent, predictable USDA guidelines on animal disease and prevention.

Our communities direly need broadband.

I urge my colleagues to use your leadership on aviation policy to help individuals enter aviation careers while increasing the diversity of the field.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would yield back.

The steps this Committee takes to roll out broadband in rural America will significantly improve the lives of families and businesses across my District.

I want to recognize my friend and colleague, Representative Hank Johnson from Georgia, for his leadership on diversifying aviation education.

I ask for you to support the SCRC so that our districts, those like mine, can successfully move into the 21st century.

Economic development is essential along the rail corridor in communities that need good-paying jobs.

I genuinely appreciate the opportunity to testify before the Committee today on the critical issues impacting my constituents.

When you see what it did to the Chinese pork industry, it just devastated it.

I respectfully ask your leadership in addressing the racial and ethnic disparities in aviation.

Economic development is crucial.

As we saw tragically in Hong Kong, the people at the top of the institutions matter as much if not more than the institutions of government themselves.

We need to move upstream, not downstream, and make these structures more resilient so that FEMA does not have to pour public dollars back into the same buildings that may again come crashing down.

Eastern North Carolina has a very robust agricultural workforce and a large presence of poultry producers.

Much of eastern North Carolina is rural. Our communities direly need broadband.

We need to move 'upstream,' not 'downstream,' and make these structures more resilient so that FEMA does not have to pour public dollars back into the same buildings that may again come crashing down.

As Congress considers the FAA reauthorization, I respectfully ask your leadership in addressing the racial and ethnic disparities in aviation.

We must allow smaller airports to focus on their immediate infrastructure needs in the FAA reauthorization package.

Thank you so much for being here to ensure our producers have consistent, predictable USDA guidelines.

I ask you to support coastal flood mitigation so that my constituents' homes do not end up in the sound.

I hope that we can work together to make it easier, not harder, for kinship families to get help from TANF.