Anthony Gonzalez

I completely agree, and like I said, I applaud the effort, and hopefully you don't mistake my comments for suggesting otherwise.

I want to thank you and the Administration for finally stepping up and pushing back against China.

I think a lot of it primarily has to do with the deregulation and the tax cuts.

My concern when I look at the budget is I'm worried that maybe we're pulling back when I think we should be pressing forward on some of these cutting-edge technologies.

I think there's a lot to be excited about with the current state of the economy, right? GDP is around 3 percent, unemployment all-time low, wages finally starting to rise.

I wonder, if we are only spending 1 percent of the budget, how big of a priority is this inside of the USDA in your estimation?

One of the things that we have been talking about with local elected officials is precisely rural housing shortages and homelessness in Wayne County.

I want to, first of all, take the time to thank Congresswoman Wagner and Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia and Congressman Trey Hollingsworth for their support and hard work on the VAWA Protections for Rural Women Act of 2019.

What I would suggest is that we think about moving HUD programs over to USDA or at least use the USDA model.

I am just concerned that we are--I hear you. They are different markets.

I think we have all kind of come to the realization that RHS--and again, thank you for your work, this is not a criticism of your work or anybody's work. But it is just not working the way that it needs to.

If we are only spending 1 percent of the budget, how big of a priority is this inside of the USDA?

I want to start by basically trying to think through how efficiently we are managing our dollar.

I have the privilege of representing Ohio's 16th Congressional District.

An astounding 92 percent of homeless women have experienced severe physical or sexual violence while almost 50 percent of all homeless women report that domestic violence was the immediate cause of their homelessness.

What is our dollar figure? ... we're talking about from the last year about a $350 million collective investment.

I think we do a poor job I should say--but we like to spend a lot of money.

I thank this whole committee for the work and the commitment to stopping money laundering, and making sure that we take care of the people of Ohio.

In Ohio, over the past few years we have lost, in each individual year, more people due to the opioid crisis than we lost in the entirety of the Vietnam War.

The U.S.-China relationship will come to define the 21st century of U.S. foreign policy.

Thank you, Madam Chair, and Ranking Member, for holding this hearing today, and also a big thank you to our witnesses for your service to our country.

Floods and risks do not stop at a line drawn on a map, which I can't agree more with.

When you have 3 thousand-year storms in 3 years, all of a sudden, the traditional lines of a hundred-year flood plain don't make sense anymore.

I tend to agree. When it comes to these sorts of technologies, I share that sentiment.

I share Madam Chair's sentiment that we need more science and technology development in the Midwest where I'm proudly from.