5 million, but the authorization is up to 50. So hopefully we can get moving on some of that.

I think one thing the pandemic showed us is that we do need to have an aggressive research position, government-funded research that might not be funded by the private sector in anticipation of threats to our agriculture system or agriculture-based diseases.

Yeah, that wastewater and drinking water, those revolving loans and grants, they are very, very important to our rural communities.

I am a little concerned that the SNAP program is not also being utilized to do the nutritional, education, and provide nutritional foods.

it looks like it has become very political.

this farm loan assistance for socially disadvantaged farmers has got a lot of them upset, because an agency that they thought was color-blind is now color-preferenced.

The politics are interesting.

If we don't carve out the Chesapeake Bay from this inspection regime, then the ecosystem is at risk.

I suspect that a one-size-fits-all approach could be harmful to my local farmers.

If you look at the discrepancies between two-parent families and single-parent families... the poverty rate is 22 percent with--child poverty rate, 22 percent in two-parent family, 9 percent in single-parent families.

I am afraid that we might have lost days or weeks because of China's unwillingness to share those early case samples.