Jeff Fortenberry

My own experience of reviewing it was again a program set up very rapidly to meet emergency food needs.

I would like to see 'made in America' on the prescription bottle. I would certainly feel better.

This is about food, food security, helping those in need, and sustaining one of the most productive aspects of American life.

Yeah, we need rural broadband, and that is very important.

First of all, I want to thank you for your leadership, sir. I do appreciate our friendship and our ability to think critically together and to collaborate.

Clean and safe drinking water, as well as wastewater treatment, are critical parts of rural development.

I thought this was a great and insightful discussion today across the broad range of agricultural considerations and rural development considerations that are affecting America.

Yeah well, we have got a lot of public expenditures going in this direction anyway, about $2 billion worth.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And as we have worked together for so long, you know me well, yes, sir, I do have a few opening comments, but, first of all, let me commend you for your leadership and your opening remarks as well, they are…

It seemed like you stumbled into the finding. That wasn't the initial charge of the research. Is that right?

Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman, not only for your friendship but your important leadership.

I really appreciate that.

I agree with the vision as well. And I think we need to tell the story loudly and clearly, as you are doing and as I am trying to do and the chairman is doing, about the power and greatness of American agriculture.

I think this is important. Because as we are seeing more and more conglomerate corporate control of our economy, there is an incumbent responsibility on these major retailers that actually participate with us in pursuing the types of…

Rural broadband is more than wires laid and money spent. It is about the meaning of that process.

I commend you for bringing up this idea of what we call placemaking or this ecosystem of livability.

That is way too late, and we need this data much faster.

I think it is an important program, again, meeting multiple objections in educating kids about nutrition, but also generating local economies for our farmers.

Your input will be critical as Chairman Bishop and I work to responsibly fund the USDA, the Food and Drug Administration, as well as the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, and the Farm Credit Administration.

We throw a lot of money at it, but do we really know what we are getting?

I want to simply highlight that.

I want to ask about a couple of things. You heard a lot of today's hearing focused on young and beginning and small farmers.

To capitalize on low wages and lax environmental safety and labor standards in other countries.

I think we need to change that equation.

What I call 'fake meat' as it impacts the possibility of reducing climate change, which is minuscule in comparison to other problems that we have, would be so disruptive in terms of nutritional value of beef.