And I want to thank you and your whole department for your work on it and for this vital support of our farmers and ranchers. What I want to ask you about, though, is actually crop insurance. The number one risk management tool that our farmers have is crop insurance. And the buy up option is critically important. It covers 67 million acres, 67 million acres of farmland in this country. It was decommissioned and we need to get reinstated again. (00:25–00:30)
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