Thank you very much. I really appreciate your attention to it, and calling that to my attention so I can address it on our end.

I first just want to reextend my invitation to you to visit my district this summer--it is beautiful in Washington State in the summer--to speak with stakeholders about priority forest restoration and wildfire mitigation projects.

I am also a cosponsor of Representative Pingree's Agriculture Resilience Act (H.R. 2803), which creates opportunities to directly enable agriculture to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

What we need are commonsense adjustments to ensure that these programs are serving our producers and their land well.

It was a pleasure to be out there in Washington State to meet with producers and to see the impact of the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program.

So that is why I am working on legislation that would improve our food and agricultural supply chain by modifying the procurement side of TEFAP to provide emergency feeding organizations with better access to healthy, locally grown food.

I would love to follow up about that just because if our goals are to support family farms and to support renewable energy sources, reducing geographic limitations would be fantastic.

I would like to flag a few key issues and ask how we can make this program more effective.

I really appreciate those relationships. That is why the legislation I am working on now is really going to get funding hopefully to the states to get down to the most local communities to do exactly what you have done and be able to…

I would just like to call attention to that to make sure that we keep that waiver in this next farm bill.

I have heard concerns about REAP providing only reimbursements and covering only 25 percent of project costs.

we should frankly just allow full-time students access to the SNAP programs.