I do recognize that we face a serious challenge with the Budget Control Act (BCA) caps.
Is it helping keeping people in rural America, or is it encouraging more consolidation and people to move out of rural America?
food is pretty damn important, okay.
We are not seeing economic growth in rural America like we are in urban areas.
I don't think Big Sandy, Montana, is any different than any small town in Iowa as far as depopulation.
I want to thank you, Mr. Secretary, for the job that you have done over 6 years now in this position.
I have seen a mass exodus off the land. A mass exodus.
I think the conservation is important. I think it's all important. It just depends on how it can be manipulated, quite frankly.
Our broadband is not where it needs to be.
Rural America is de-populating in a big, big, big way.
It breaks my heart to see what is going on in rural America.