I assure you, rural poverty is real. It is not just in the big cities.

My mother fled Communist Cuba where that country still oppresses their people every day.

The Chinese government spies on everybody, and its own people are not free of that.

There is no doubt that China is our top competitor and adversary.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I do appreciate the comments from my colleague from California: distinguish between the people and the government.

I also agree with his comments about buying American.

I have a bill to go back to the gold standard.

The Chinese government is moving rapidly toward implementing its digital currency, the digital yuan controlled by its central bank.

I do think a lot of the policies government created has exacerbated that, made it too easy not to work.

We need, for our State to be successful, to harness our natural resources and not allow the Federal Government to get in the way of that, as they often do.

Mr. Speaker, earlier this week, the House resoundingly passed my bipartisan bill, the Expanding Access to Capital for Rural Job Creators Act. Rural small businesses face unique challenges that big city businesses do not. Nearly 20 percent…