U.S. Lieutenant Governors

I encourage the Committee to consider making science-based regulations that would enable us to tackle these problems quickly.

I have been an advocate of psychedelics in terms of the magic mushrooms for PTSD and for veterans, especially.

I think we should have more research and microdosing and other issues, I think, is essential.

Thank you, Dr. Worthington.

We need a farm bill that works for all of our farmers.

This is an opportunity to decrease risk for our farmers, stabilize our food supply chain, increase accessibility to healthy fruits and vegetables.

I am also excited to announce my bipartisan Protecting Mushroom Farmers Act.

Currently mushroom producers are not covered under crop insurance.

I am proud to be a co-sponsor of Senator Brown's Local Farms and Food Act of 2023.

Look, for years, we have focused on putting out fires. And we were very, very successful at it, and by being successful at it, we have caused the problem that we have got.

We have got to stop wasting limited agency resources to needlessly redo and relitigate projects that have already undergone extensive environmental and public processes.

The fuel is going to go. It's either got to be burned out or it has got to be removed.

I recently introduced the FIRESHEDS Act with Ranking Member Barrasso and Senators Daines and Crapo to address landscapes at extreme high risk of catastrophic fire.

My bill will allow states to work closely with federal agencies across the boundaries to conduct management projects on firesheds which constitute the highest risk to communities, wildlife, and quality management.

For those of you who live on the East Coast, welcome to our air in the West.

I appreciate your comment about the 6,000 work visas for Idahoans, but that is a drop in the bucket.

This is not a partisan issue, obviously. This is an American issue. We are all in this together trying to get it done.

Foreigners have to wait months, sometimes years, to visit the United States. These delays directly hurt American industry, slow economic growth, and delay reuniting families.

A lot of us were very concerned about what happened in Sudan.

Americans have been struggling to get passports for years now and waiting weeks longer than they did before the pandemic.

We want to remind that this farm bill is really all about farmers, all farmers.

We will only see continued climate change. That is not going away, sadly.

I encourage the Committee to consider making science-based regulations that would enable us to tackle these problems quickly.

I think we should have more research and microdosing and other issues, I think, is essential.