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.

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

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

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

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

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

We believe that regulatory uncertainty constitutes a major impediment to U.S. innovation and investment.

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

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.

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

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