"I applaud the Appropriations Act providing $365 million for Round 5 of ReConnect, but it undermines two key characteristics of the ReConnect program."
"We need a rural broadband that will do three things."
"Our overall job is to revitalize rural America, and the health of rural America."
"Now is the time to focus on fiber and get fiber everywhere, as soon as possible, as it will be the most efficient use of the Federal funding dollars that are available."
"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 a great deal of concern about climate issues, and I think, on this Committee, a real desire to find ways to make it possible for the agricultural community to make the significant contributio..."
"There is an enormous pressure on you to be, quote, 'efficient.' That gets translated into being big."
"the definition of a small farm is changing. It is not 75 cows anymore. It is 500 to 800."
"We have an enormous appreciation for small local agriculture because it does so much for the people who live in that area."
"the United States Supreme Court, in many recent decisions, has, in my view, become a threat to democracy."