I call the committee back to order. Thanks to the first panel and we appreciate your testimony. We welcome the second panel that is with us. Fir, we have mr. Ms. Botts, she is a executive director for the kentucky she was named in 2013, has over 15 years of experience working in agriculture and World Development policy issues and helping individuals in rural areas understand issues related to policy and financing. You could be of help to individual senators i would imagine. Before returning to kentucky to work for kcard, she spent ten areas working on agriculture ask a policy staffer in the house of on representatives, grew up on a farm in kentucky and received a ms and bs in rural economics in kentucky and lives on a small farm right now, with her husband and two children, welcome to you, maam. We look forward to your testimony. Second witness is mr. Elmer general manager, Water Association and kansas america. He is the general manager of the kansas rural Water Association. His career
Message where it needs to be delivered, that the time is critical and i look forward to being part of the solution. Thank you very much, mike, for your comments and your contributions. Ill take it a little bit out of order now and take my law partner and former member of congress, state of georgia, congressman Jack Kingston to give his perspective on some of the things theyre doing down in georgia, particularly in the port project area and hes now with us, with these projects probably had something to do with them back when you were in congress yourself. Jack, why dont you go ahead and tell us about what is happening down there. Thank you very much, senator. I have to take a point of personal privilege that i really came here to lobby jennifer on going ahead and getting a fast lane on 395. I think we all would like to see that happen. And, mike, i want to say my mother actually lives in louisville, colorado, and your toll road is great. Thank you. Ive driven it many times. It is such a
132 million. These are impressive numbers and keeps us aware of the system here today. To address the first question if you look what the faa tried to do, to shut them down because they didnt have funding, majority of those more contract hours but more faa towers, majority of them were in Rural America. That is one of our biggest concerns about status quo. Thanks for looking out for Rural America. Thank the senator from montana for looking out for Rural America and i think he and i would probably both agree at the end of this we would like to see more direct flights to and from, is that right . I appreciate i think weve run out of questioners and i do appreciate very much the panel great remarks today different perspectives this is the senates first foray into the issue of reform and we have to figure out a way as we move towards reauthorization of doing whats best. We all have the same goal in mind as was pointed out. Sometimes maybe slightly different perspectives on how best to get
Needs. Now it is my pleasure to introduce ronald l. Hurst the Vice President of conservation of museums and the chief cura curator. It goes without saying that ron plays a significant leadership role at williamsburg directing initiatives across the foundation and importantly expanding Decorative Arts research. Drayton halls staff is particularly happy to have him here this evening. What began as a series of correspondence grew to Collaborative Research and then finally the 27 objects from drayton hall. Ron has helped contexturalize the architecture of the hall. Ladies and gentlemen, lets give a warm welcome to ron hurst. Thank you, and everyone, im so pleased to be in charleston. I never miss an opportunity to come to the holy city, it is one of those very special places, whether youre interested in histor historic ar chitecture or not. For many people, the popular image stops there. While all of these elements are in fact a part of the early south story, the full picture is so much ri