Pat Ryan: “I want to thank Mr. Blumenauer for requesting this hearing.”

For months, I’ve been pushing at every level to help secure this official Disaster Designation, which will now unlock millions of dollars in emergency loans and resources to help our farmers and growers begin to recover.

Pausing this critical project, without warning or explanation, is a slap in the face to our Hudson Valley community.

We’re doing generational damage to the sense that the military is an apolitical trusted organization that swears an oath to the Constitution, not to a president.

Hardworking folks across the Hudson Valley are getting crushed by the cost of housing.