03/11/2019
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"I applaud the Appropriations Act providing $365 million for Round 5 of ReConnect, but it undermines two key characteristics of the ReConnect program."
"we absolutely have to have an agency. What its scope of engagement is has to be defined by us."
"How do we maintain local agriculture, small family agriculture, for the values that it represents?"
"There is an enormous pressure on you to be, quote, 'efficient.' That gets translated into being big."