Order. Todays hearing marks the ninth hearing this year. Dedicating to listening to stakeholders on how our programs are currently working or need improvement as we work towards a a farm bill reauthorization by this congress. This includes taking a look at spending requests and proposals for 39 programs in the belt that do not have a budget baseline. Our committee must be mindful the very tough budgetary environment that we have to face. While it is a principle duty of this committee, to ensure the next farm bill provides our nations Agricultural Producers with the necessary tools and rories to feed a growing and hungry world, a responsibilities in the world of u. S. Day do not stop there. The it is also critical to support Rural Businesses and cooperatives and Health Clinics and schools, Renewable Energy and bio based product manufacturers and other essential Service Providers. We serve as the backbone of the communities our farmers and ranchers call home. Earlier this year, at our co
Our committee must be mindful the very tough budgetary environment that we have to face. While it is a principle duty of this committee, to ensure the next farm bill provides our nations Agricultural Producers with the necessary tools and rories to feed a growing and hungry world, a responsibilities in the world of u. S. Day do not stop there. The it is also critical to support Rural Businesses and cooperatives and Health Clinics and schools, Renewable Energy and bio based product manufacturers and other essential Service Providers. We serve as the backbone of the communities our farmers and ranchers call home. Earlier this year, at our committees first field hearing in manhattan, kansas, home of the ever optimistic and fighting wildca wildcats, we had the opportunity to hear from a number of stakeholders that i believe share much of the same passion and commitment to Rural America today. To the witnesses, i apologize. We listened to the manager after the electric cooperative explain h
Much every state in this country. Basicvide what used to be telephone service. They are now broadband providers. They have also become the one stop shop Service Providers for immunitys. They do video, wireless, data centers, whatever technologies their communities require. We resent their interests here in washington, d. C. Who are some of your members . We have everywhere from the largest cooperative in the Telecommunications Cooperative in South Carolina with 100,000 subscribers, to numerous small companies, familyhell, locally owned. That have 400 or 500 subscribers a piece. If you looked at the map of the united states, we serve about 40 of the landmass but about 5 of the kinds customer base. When you think about here in washington, where you have a large provider providing service, 130 scrappers, my folks subscribers per mile. My folks average six or seven consumers per mile. Differentr concerns than the verizons, at ts . By definition. When you think about what a Rural Community
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Road Department Superintendent Tom Broyles said crews are patching potholes while preparing to pave and resurface from this year’s list. He said the bridge added on County Road 422 southwest