We need to do a better job selling the Cooperstowns and the Walhallas, and there are some great recreational opportunities.

We were pretty insistent that a provision needed to be placed that would prohibit SBA from collateralizing someone's home because then literally their whole life is at risk.

I often say this, and I think it is true, with the exception of my partner on this subcommittee, we wake up every morning thinking about rural America.

I think it is interesting when you look around this podium here to see that there is not a state that is not impacted by disaster.

For me, a lot of this lies in maximizing the availability of federal resources, maximizing the knowledge of federal resources and where we come talk to Penny Pritzker, talk to anyone that I can, Maria Contreras-Sweet, about rural…

85 percent of our country's persistent poverty counties are in rural America. Poverty is not just an urban issue.

This is not about partisan politics. This is about the balance of authority and power.

I think that the biggest problem that we have is the lack of political courage and political will to make the tough decisions.

As I have said before, the legislative branch needs to do a better job when we write laws.

Congress is not doing its job under delegation.

Can I just make a point that, Mr. Cooper, there is a whole range of decisions agencies make.

It is Congress who is politically accountable to the people, and if they do not like what Chairman Lankford or Ranking Member Heitkamp have done, they can call them home and do something about it.