Pat Ryan: “We have a responsibility to future generations.”

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.

I am and for -- have forever been a Pete Buttigieg fan. He's just shown an ability to actually unify the country when that is just what people are desperately looking for. So I'd love -- I'd love to see him.

I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I don't get up very often and speak much on the floor, to be honest. What I heard in the few minutes here from my colleagues is, as the gentleman from Massachusetts said…

We're not doing enough. We don't have the urgency. It – it needs to be a national problem.