I appreciate the opportunity to address fellow Members of the House Agriculture Committee. I am proud to represent the people of central Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

It is so important that we as Members of this Committee continue to advocate for the needs of rural America, the needs of our farmers and producers.

It is an example of how working across the aisle, in good faith, can lead to actual reforms of our nation's broken immigration system.

We need to advance a USMCA that can protect these relationships, expand access to North American markets, and actively advance economic interests of U.S. businesses and workers.

Increased access to the internet means students can complete their homework assignments, farmers can take full advantage of precision ag tools, and seniors can access telehealth services.

The Farm Workforce Modernization Act would enact a major reform. It would create a new, year-round guestworker program.

They work in acres, not hours.

The lack of high-speed broadband internet is not being addressed swiftly enough.

For years now, the SDF has been our staunch allies in the fight against ISIS, losing by estimates--more than 10,000 of their own soldiers in this process.

I think it should be deeply concerning to you and your colleagues that we have now lost access to human intelligence through the relationships that we did have with the Kurds.

But when we buoy back and forth that seems a little bit more frenetic than rapidly changing.