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bill hoagland is senior vice president at the bipartisan policy center, and while we don't know each other, in fact, it is the first day we officially met come still turns out with a lot more in common than you might imagine. like you i am now the hoosier. we moved to indiana about four years ago after lifting nearly all of my life in and around the d.c. area. i now live in a a small town in the northern part of the state. there are many small towns in indiana, so i live in one of them. and i can call myself a hoosier. when they do that in indiana if you haven't been there like 1 million years you still get that look, not really. you go back to d.c. once in a while, right? i live there now. your family farms and it's also been recognized by the state of indiana for being in your family for over a century, and that's amazing. you have an award and acclamation for that as well. i'm involved in agricultural production. my husband and i moved to indiana and we have four raised beds in which every year to grow fruits and vegetables fixed sometimes were successful, sometimes not so much bu