Jeff Fortenberry: “There is a lot of consequences to flooding, some of which are--couldn't be perceived before it actually happens.”

First, let me acknowledge the leadership of our committee, the chair, Rosa DeLauro, and our Ranking Member Kay Granger particularly, in this sense, for their attempt to navigate this contentious process in which there really are areas of…

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…

Thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate you holding this hearing.

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