Heidi Heitkamp actually said...

I want to make sure that when you are making these appointments and looking at this that you find people with rural experience.

The sugar program is critical. I am not sure--I have not been here for the whole hearing.

I hope that you will engage us. We are a very bipartisan, collaborative committee, and we all represent agricultural states.

But my concern is what we are seeing really out of the White House and out of the budget does not seem to be pro rural or pro agriculture.