I want to first thank the outstanding leadership in South Africa.

I am concerned that if we do not step up, that there will be a vacancy and other people will find an opportunity.

I think we all know what success looks like for the CHIPS Act 20 years from now.

My sense is that the CHIPS Act should best be understood as an industry subsidy but as an industry catalyst.

So we have to light a very expensive spark, and that spark has to catch fire.

I find it remarkable that we have had a 200-plus-year relationship with Africa and we did not have an African trading policy officially until 2000--it's rather reprehensible.

The AGOA--African Growth Opportunity Act--is up for renewal in 2025. Please share with us your insights on what that bill should look like.

Our nation is only as strong as its weakest citizens, and really making sure that we make the kind of investments in every part of our country.

As it relates to the African American farmers, they have been excluded, denied, locked out, left behind.

What can we do, as Members of Congress, to help ameliorate this bridge, make things better going forward?

These communities have been under-invested in for centuries.