The current Administration is cutting agricultural discretionary spending by about $4.7 billion.

Thank you very much for your support for research.

We enjoy the safest, most affordable, and most abundant food supply in the world in large part due to sustained public investment in agricultural research.

I proposed that if we were really trying to address hunger, then we should be providing three meals a day.

I live in a state... that since I have been in Congress is either the hungriest state in the nation, or it has the hungriest children in the nation.

There is a sense that there are so many easy ways and that it is all duplicated, and that in fact we are overfeeding or over-providing.

I had a bill, H.R. 4967, the Food Bank Assistance Act of 2016 that we are reintroducing again this year that says spend the $100 million, because now you are addressing hunger, because you are getting food to the places that you need it to…

I am in favor of at least a 57 percent increase. Instead of $338 million, it ought to be $500 million.

The Margin Protection Program is the right idea. We just have to get it tweaked so that it works, especially for the small guys.

Dairy farms and processing plants are responsible for $26 billion of the state's economy.

The economic impact of dairy on New Mexico cannot be understated.

Since 2014, milk prices have fallen 40% causing dairy farmers to see their incomes cut in half.

And so again, trade is a vital component there and we have a lot of concern, and we definitely want to see new trade agreements, or trade agreements that can be beneficial to ag, because ag in general benefits from the export market.

the challenges are incredible, and these safety net programs are incredibly valuable and important.

we have been one of the hungriest states in the nation with some of the hungriest children in the nation.

It should not ever be tolerated.

we are penalizing those poorest and most at risk in our country.

We have one of the most fouled up SNAP programs in the country.