Lack of access, lack of choice, and high cost consistently discourages parents from reentering the workforce.

Well, thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate your fine opening statement. And you holding this hearing. It is a very important issue.

I appreciate what you are doing and encouraging, for example, businesses to partner up.

I look forward to hearing the challenges presented within the childcare industry and what we can do to reduce burdensome regulations and costs within this field.

Each community, each parent, and each child has unique wants and needs that are better served when choices are expanded.

One of the wonderful things about this Committee is the bipartisan nature and the way that Members get together and try to improve small businesses.

I appreciate the witnesses.

the number one important thing for agriculture right now is to get the United States-Mexico-Canada Free Trade Agreement through.

We are trying to reverse that.

I appreciate the industry's support and I would ask my members on the Committee to take a look at that as well.

I would agree. You go out and do all this education, training. Put years and years of work to prepare to treat patients and then you go to do the work and you have to ask permission every step of the way.