Jeff Fortenberry: “This would provide a pilot project to see how the government could facilitate the upfront capital cost.”

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

There is another issue that I am compelled to speak about regarding spending here. It is called the Hyde amendment. The Hyde amendment prevents taxpayer money for abortion, and this has remained a bipartisan compact in this institution for…

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.