promoting the SUSTAINS Act--or SUSTAINS Law, which allows us to expand funding for conservation using private-sector dollars.

For many forested and rural communities, our National Forests are critically important for supporting jobs, providing a sustainable supply of timber, and promoting forest health.

Thank you, Chief Moore. I appreciate that.

Therefore, I respectfully request the committee to authorize robust funding for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency in fiscal year 2024.

We need to concurrently work on economic health of those communities.

I will just share that the ambassador from India was--we sat for a 2 hour breakfast in Cary, North Carolina. He expressed a significant desire to improve trade with the United States.

I don't think that it serves us to be starving people abroad. I think that it helps Americans for us to be feeding people all over the world.

Agriculture is the backbone of most of the world's economies, and heavily relies on international trade.

We need to use the teeth in these agreements to get where we need to be at the end of the day.

We must take the necessary steps to hold Mexico to their agreements under the USMCA.

Agriculture is the backbone to most of the world's economies, and heavily relies on international trade.

Robust and fair trade agreements are not outdated tools, rather they can protect our agricultural interests.

But I remain concerned that without a robust and forward-thinking trade agenda, our producers--large and small--risk being excluded from markets.

Without a robust and forward-thinking trade agenda, our producers risk being excluded from markets.

Expanding trading relationships with new and emerging markets across Africa and Southeast Asia can offer substantial opportunities.

The current process to determine if a digital asset is a security or not is unclear, unworkable, and impractical.

Our committees have an historic opportunity to work together to create a comprehensive digital assets market framework.

I want to echo my fellow colleagues' comments and thank our members and witnesses for being here today.

I hope we are able to work together in a bipartisan manner on substantive legislation to address the issues that are being discussed today.

It will take the cooperation of committees and regulators to build a workable framework to oversee digital assets.

Hey, good afternoon, everybody, and thank you to all the witnesses that are here today for lending your expertise to this incredibly important hearing.

I think that there is great potential for digital assets to provide significant value for the American public.

Digital asset developers, users, and institutions need clear, thoughtful rules of the road to create these solutions.

We firmly believe that Congress and market regulators should work together to establish a framework for the digital asset ecosystem.

Thank you to all the witnesses that are here today for lending your expertise to this incredibly important hearing.