The answer is right under our feet here in America and it is also growing in our fields all over the country today.

A specific thing I think we could do right away would be year-round E15, which would increase demand, would provide some certainty for the market.

The majority of those are in my district. And I think everyone would agree that these investments have been huge for rural economic development over the last few decades.

Let's use a scalpel and not a sledgehammer. Let's make some tweaks, let's work to improve it, but let's acknowledge that what we have is a good program.

the bottom line is we need diesel fuel, we need it today, and that is not going to change anytime soon.

We need to really discuss is the safety net the appropriate height off the ground so to speak moving into this farm bill?

In my part of the country, we greatly rely on broadband to connect our communities to one another and to the rest of the world.

I represent the First District of Kansas, 63 primarily rural counties in the western central part of the state.

Crop insurance will be my highest priority and I think should be the highest priority so far as production agriculture goes for this Committee.

First of all, I ask unanimous consent that I be permitted to speak for up to 7 minutes and Senator Barrasso be permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes prior to the scheduled rollcall votes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is…

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you are a thousand miles from the corn field.

today I want to speak about a piece of bipartisan legislation that Chairman Tester and I introduced with the unanimous support of every member of the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, both Republicans and Democrats. Consensus is often…

We can't expect to monitor any program with only a years' worth of results.

I would say that people in my district and the ethanol industry are baffled and frustrated by this war that they feel is being waged.

It feels like China sold America a bill of goods and the Biden Administration has made no effort to rectify the situation.

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as everyone in this Chamber knows, the filibuster requires a supermajority--60 votes--to proceed on most issues in the Senate. The filibuster is truly the essence of this deliberative body. It is what makes the Senate the Senate. It is…

I want to thank the gentleman from Louisiana for hosting this today. There are a lot of things to talk about for a year. We could talk about immigration. We could talk about inflation. We could talk about crime. And we could talk about…