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Thank you, Mr. Walker. I appreciate that.

Our producers find themselves in a precarious spot after facing several years of extreme weather, volatile feed costs, uncertain export markets, and constant pressure to protect their herds and flocks from disease.

Well thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I appreciate you holding today's hearing to consider the state of the livestock and poultry economies.

I encourage you to continue to do that, continue to look at the diversity of the agency from top to bottom, and make it the most diverse police force in America that reflects the people that you represent.

I had nothing but positive experiences with both offices over the 15 years that I have been in Congress.

I want to underscore again just how important it is to get USMCA ratified.

It has always bothered me a little bit that it seems like we are under the same business model we were under 100 years ago where you are totally dependent upon commodity prices and totally dependent upon trade as well.

We need those agricultural inspection specialists, and we need to continue to have the great relationship we have enjoyed so far with USDA and CBP.

We are meeting today against the backdrop of the incredibly difficult times in the agriculture industry as a whole.

You all have alluded and spoken directly, both, to the fact that employers are very engaged in what is going on.

I have spent years trying to combat the stigma and championing the idea that all education is career education.

A persistent problem we have with the apprenticeship system in the United States is the disappointing stigma attached to models other than what we have known as, quote, traditional postsecondary education at a college or university.

We must invest significant resources at the Federal level.

Well said. Thank you.

We ran into a crisis a few years ago with the debt ceiling. You all remember the words 'debt ceiling'? That is how sequestration evolved.

All of us on the Democratic side of the aisle--and I can tell you that the Democratic budget in the House of Representatives is a budget that is not perfect, but it is a budget that all of you would be proud of if you would really take a…

Yes, we passed the First Step Act. I am very proud of the First Step Act. I voted for it, but it is only a first step.

As a country, we spend $4.7 trillion every year; $2.9 trillion of that is what we call entitlement spending.