Your tireless effort in putting that at the front of the national stage and situation, sitting in the Oval Office many times with President Trump and being the voice for South Texas farmers who had really lost hope, many of which lost their farms. In fact, as you know, we lost our sugar cane industry due to Mexico not delivering that water. So thank you from the bottom of my heart and from all of South Texas. Not only that, but you, you quickly pushed forward the $280 million that went to our farms that were affected by the 1944 Water Treaty. (12:59–13:07)
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