It's outrageous. It's absolutely outrageous.

This is totally, utterly, completely unacceptable.

The policy choices of the Biden administration are creating an unending flow of children to this country.

This is totally, utterly, completely unacceptable.

Members of this committee were among the very first to sound the alarm bells on China's insidious Belt and Road Initiative, Xi Jinping's plan to extend China's influence across the globe through predatory investments, debt trap diplomacy.

Good morning and welcome to today's hearing on agricultural research and extension activities across the nation's universities.

it is my great privilege to say a very few words in introduction of my friend and fellow Senator, Eric Schmitt, as he prepares to give his maiden speech on this floor. We haven't worked together very long in the Senate, but we have known…

This would be an unmitigated disaster for human rights, international security, and global economic development.

At that hearing, we also heard about the backlog of deferred maintenance on research facilities across the nation.

Thank you for holding today's hearing titled: 'A Review of Title VII: University Perspectives on Research and Extension Programs.'

When this Subcommittee met a few months ago to hear directly from USDA on research program efficacy, we discussed how agricultural research has yielded our economy $20 for every $1 spent.

it is an honor to be here with all of you to give this maiden speech, and I want to thank the senior Senator from Missouri. We may be the youngest combo. He is younger than I, but he is the senior Senator. He reminds me of that quite often…

The fact that the administration won't come and sit there and answer questions to this Committee is absurd.

What I heard from Secretary Mayorkas--don't take my word for it, you go look at the record, read the transcript. What he told me was, 'Oh, it's not my problem. We don't have anything to do with it. Not my problem.'

It's a direct violation of child labor laws.

These kids are literally being sold as slaves in the United States of America in the year 2023 and nobody's responsible.

When USDA was created by President Lincoln in 1862, the primary objective of the Department was to 'acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture.'

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.J. Res. 44, which will nullify the ATF's overreaching and unconstitutional rule to regulate firearms that happen to have stabilizing braces such as…