This fundamentally important legislation would provide an avenue for young and beginning farmers to secure their own land, helping to preserve agricultural operations in posterity.

I urge you to include this proposal as part of the farm bill reauthorization next year.

With the average price per acre of a farm increasing with higher real estate costs, it is more important than ever that Congress act to ensure that farmland is preserved and maintained for the next generation.

Thank you for the opportunity to speak in support of a bill that I have co-led with a bipartisan group of Members, the Increasing Land Access, Security, and Opportunities Act.

This bill would authorize $100 million for this program, operating out of the Farm Service Agency, from 2024 through 2028.

Again, Hamas never shared the information about whether or not they had him or not, which is just another example of their treachery.

Talk is cheap. I mean I have been around here a while. Budgets are what really, I think show the true willingness to act in situations like this.

It shows again that the civil rights effort of the Department of Justice, which also is being subjected to a potential cut needs to get full funding in the Office of Civil Rights.

Thank you, Chairwoman Foxx, and I want to thank you for the moment of silence for the 137 hostages who are still being held to this day.

As Co-Chair of the bipartisan Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Task Force, I am proud to support the efforts that will directly address the needs of our students.

I am proud to lead H.R. 2424, the Modern WIC Act, which will streamline access to WIC benefits.

I encourage all of our colleagues, particularly those on this Committee, to join us in addressing this mental health crisis amongst our school students.

In my State of Connecticut, we ranked ninth nationally for workers represented by a union.

Across the country workers are seeing corporations enjoy incredible profits while the workers are left behind with stagnant wages.

I guess my question is who is looking out for the little guy if big corporations are the focus of the Republican-controlled Congress?

We should have had OSHA standards that are well ready to go in terms of trying to identify high-risk patients and not send workers alone into situations like that.

Today I missed rollcall No. 679 on the Rule (H. Res. 891 ) for three bills under consideration on the floor this week: H.R. 5283, ``Protecting our Communities from Failure to Secure the Border Act; H.R. 5961, ``No Funds for Iranian…

In my opinion, there is a very good reason why the American people are just completely turned off by what they see here in Washington, DC, is because this is probably the least productive Congress, in memory, in terms of just the output of…