From the transcript

So thank you so much for that. I am a co-sponsor of this bipartisan bill that we are hearing here today, and I do want to thank the chairwoman for her leadership on this issue, because New Mexico is truly on the front lines of the new— of the new world screwworm outbreak, and our ranchers and our farmers deserve to know that Congress has their back. And so I want to talk a little bit about what we're doing, what this bill is about, and how we're helping to support our farmers and ranchers back home. And also to talk about how we ended up in this place, because the reality is that the United States actually successfully eradicated the New World Screwworm in the 1960s. And that was an achievement that was sustained through science, investment, and a whole of government commitment, as this bill is trying to accomplish.

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