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David Cheston Rouzer is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 7th congressional district since January 3, 2014. A member of the Republican Party, Rouzer has focused on issues such as agriculture, veterans' affairs, and economic development during his time in office. He has been active in promoting policies that support the agricultural sector, which is vital to North Carolina's economy. Rouzer has also served on various committees, contributing to legislative discussions on a range of topics affecting his constituents.
Today is a very sad day for our Republic. The country is now more divided than it ever has been in my lifetime. The truth has been trampled by this House of Representatives. Because of the abuses of the FBI and the Department of Justice…
I just think it is important to underscore the role that these programs play in terms of maintaining and enhancing America's influence in the world when we have a lot of actors out there that don't share the same values that we have.
These programs are critically important to our maintaining and enhancing our influence in the world, in addition to the humanitarian aspect and the economic development aspect of them.
Okay. When you mentioned earlier today in the hearing where you throw out food that may be contaminated with swine fever, assuming that food is digested or ingested by the human body, it has no effect?
From my education and to my knowledge, swine fever has no impact on human health. Is that correct?
It seems to me that we need to do a better job of talking about the risk with this movement out there to move to backyard production agriculture.
This is the first routine drone medical package delivery operation for compensation in our country.
As you know, my home State of North Carolina is one of the nine participants in the FAA's UAS integration pilot program.
This is a very fragile time, very precarious time for many in production agriculture, particularly those that have been forced to endure multiple natural disasters.
We appreciate the work that you and the many great employees all across USDA do.
Just for your awareness, and I don't know necessarily that this is why it spread, but I have gotten some feedback from producers that when they go to the FSA office, they are told that they have absolutely no idea what they are going to be…
What about the timing of the payment, though, once that application is complete, everything is done correctly, et cetera?
Roughly $3 billion, those of us in the Southeast worked really, really hard, including my friend here to my left, Mr. Scott, on getting this disaster relief package across the finish line.
I, too, want to commend the entire team at USDA and all those FSA employees out there that are working really hard.
This underscores the need to constantly improve the insurance policies available to producers and be more forward looking about necessary coverage options.
Having a 5 year farm bill in place is critically important to provide at least some degree of stability for an industry that has always faced a wide variety of challenges and uncertainty.
We take it for granted every single day of our lives, and so, it is really important that we as Republicans and Democrats on this Committee stick together.
It is important that we recognize just how critical it is that we in agriculture stick together, Republican and Democratic.
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