Monica De La Cruz

I think we can all agree that integrity and accountability are important when it comes to SNAP and other benefits.

Legislation offers the best path forward, not just for Coinbase, but for the entire industry.

I would rather--more accurately characterize it as a monologue.

Thank you, Chairman Luetkemeyer, for holding this hearing today.

While I appreciate my colleagues' many concerns over China's role in international debt challenges that are currently faced, and its attempts to reshape the international financial system, I want to start my time a little closer to home.

I really do feel that this is going to kind of shoot us in the leg right now as we are trying to deploy out more much needed resources, and supports to our farmers, ranchers, and producers.

My district is over 80-percent Hispanic, and I am really concerned about any increases...

I just wanted to put it on your radar that in February, myself, along with some of our fellow Texans, wrote a letter commending the USTR and USDA for their rejection of the Mexican Government's proposal to ban U.S. imports of genetically…

I have concerns that foreign imports that are well below what we are able to produce it for locally could lead us to growing less of our own food.

Congresswoman, we have adequate capital, we are fine, we will be able to get through this period. But what we are most worried about is that because of the lack of good management in these banks, and the failure of the regulators, that we…

It is critical that this body continues to investigate the circumstances around these bank failures and how the Biden Administration and the financial regulators responded to these events.

I think about how we can distribute this product to get more consumers involved.

I have had insurance experience for over 20 years; I owned my own agency for over 20 years.

It is time for Congress to assert its role in reforming the National Flood Insurance Program in order to ensure its long-term solvency.

I look forward to working with my colleagues on the other side to help strengthen this industry and to support stakeholders across this industry with good legislation and specifically working with our farmers in Texas and across this…

The farm bill isn't something that happens every year, which I think is good as it allows Congress the time to look at the policies in the past and see whether they have been working or not working.

If we don't move faster, the ones who are really going to suffer are our farmers and ranchers, and thus, our American communities.

But I would like to remind you that Congress recently provided a robust increase for OPP appropriations.

What we need to know is how you are going to streamline the review process in labeling for new products of fruits and vegetables?

I think that most people would agree that they want their dollar to grow for retirement and not to be impacted by partisan policies such as ESG.

With your current rule in place, it seems that your philosophy is moving away from the strength of our United States capital market and closer to a European system.

In fact, we have so much difficulty that in Brooks County one of the counties in my district, they have actually had to build a morgue just to hold the amount of dead bodies that they have found on ranch lands.

And I will make you aware of that the farmers and ranchers have said while there is the system, they have had great difficulty in actually accessing the money.

Sometimes, we do have to ask for help, and that is the fever tick issue happening in south Texas.

We are under great stress, and our farmers and ranchers through their experience of, again, property damage, loss of crops, loss of livestock.