Jeff Fortenberry

I told them what I knew and what I understood. They`ve accused me of lying to them and are charging me with this. We`re shocked. We`re stunned. I feel so personally betrayed. We thought we were trying to help.

Thank you, Representative Rose, for your thoughtful comments, the importance of agricultural education across a variety of institutions.

Thank you again for holding the hearing. I thought it was a very thorough, good discussion.

I think it has been a very important discussion about a wide-ranging breadth of things.

Thank you very much.

No, other than again to thank you, Mr. Chairman, for your leadership. I think it has been a productive hearing to unpack this significant portion of America's public policy of both expenditures but also impact.

China's development strategy, frankly, is this: It is predatory lending, it is resource extraction, and it is payment to authoritarian regimes.

The World Health Organization's credibility is on the line.

I would like you to just find a pathway to help us get that done.

I believe this is inconsistent with sound diplomacy. It is a projection of our own ideological divisions on the poor throughout the world.

I think it is a critical new architecture for, again, establishing trust and economic well-being with continuity, using the best of the private market system with a little bit of subsidy.

I am so grateful for her leadership.

Ultimately about human dignity and creating conditions for flourishing human life and stability.

I really appreciate that. I think this whole committee very much does.

I completely understand that, but without a specific set of examples that we know that this is a model that is scalable for development across not only Haiti, but across other regions, I am afraid that we focus on these larger structural…

The idea here is to go deeper in terms of place-based strategies, fix the broken border situation.

We see this manifesting itself again, China on the march, seemingly ahead of us.

It is basically this: predatory lending, resource extraction, and support for authoritarian methodologies in governance.

Yeah. We look forward to trying to give constructive input in the spirit of what we intended in the law.

I am asking my question and trying to be in solidarity with you and the responsible community of nations to continue to basically hold China accountable here.

Why don't we hold China accountable to international environmental standards in all trade agreements and other agreements?

Listen, China is on the march. They have a hybrid capitalistic/communistic system that directly subsidizes industry.

What you are intending to do and where you are looking at that would be helpful.

The regenerative capacity and the possibilities of stabilization for community, as well as new technologies emerging not only to feed people but to be an active player in environmental conservation