Frank Lucas: “This rural infrastructure may be largely out of sight, but it is of critical importance to those communities affected.”

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you, Ranking Member, for holding this hearing, and the witnesses for agreeing to testify.

The time to make updates to the farm safety net is now.

Before I yield to my colleague from Michigan, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, this is a process that combines two good pieces of legislation. This is a process that takes what we successfully did in…

I have no further requests, and I simply note this is a good bill. Let's vote for it. I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Weber of Texas). The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Oklahoma…