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It is hard to overstate the importance of market access to American agricultural producers.

NPPC supports the 'Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2021' introduced by Reps. John Garamendi (D-CA) and Dusty Johnson (R-SD), which would address the issues plaguing U.S. exports.

The pervasiveness of our supply chain issues has been widely reported and impacts all links in the chain between producers and end customers.

I am proud to lead it with you. Your leadership has been critically important.

We urge the Committee to take up this legislation as soon as possible.

Yet even with their efforts, there simply aren't enough truckers on the road to meet the demand.

The bipartisan Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2021 introduced by Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) and Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD).

It's critical that we pursue all avenues to alleviate the supply chain crisis and get goods moving again.

I don't think that makes a whole lot of sense.

I have heard from you that we have 80,000 drivers short of where we need to be right now.

Thank you, Mr. Durkin. Sir, in your testimony you highlighted the bill that I have with John Garamendi...

Madam Chair, thank you and Ranking Member Boozman for holding this hearing to consider this nomination.

It is very short-sighted of Mexico. We are all not--it--global climate change--it is a global climate change, not a U.S. climate change.

I suspect all of our panelists know that Mexico recently published a decree announcing their intention to phase out a number of different important agricultural technologies.

We will increase yields, we will reduce our carbon footprint, we will improve animal welfare, and, again, we are only going to do these things by embracing ingenuity, progress, and innovation.

There is a moral and a technological issue that is facing this Committee and society, how are we going to feed a growing world at the same time that we work to be good stewards of our environment?

The fact that a move to 24/7 operations at L.A. Long Beach, which is a standard practice in much of the rest of the world, merits a Presidential announcement is baffling.

I think we need a Marshall plan on the ports right now.