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The urgency of the climate crisis must be met with effective answers.

But no, I don't believe--to answer your question, I don't believe so.

Do Federal regulators, USDA, are they taking into account the impact globally of this regulatory situation?

Folks, it is out of control and we have let this happen because we got our eye on the wrong ball.

Right now--well, I had asked the President--40 Members signed on to a letter to ask the President to restore the previous fossil fuel regulatory environment and production incentives that we had in this country that made this country…

I have tried to be patient with the Administration. I recognize that they have their priorities, but folks, this body and this Congress and this Administration better get our priorities in order.

We are financing the dadgum war. I mean, folks, you can't make this stuff up.

It is time for this Administration to engage and this Committee to engage.

Right now the world is on the edge of global upheaval, and today's hearing focuses on none of our farmer's critical issues, not one.

We have to raise a loud voice and stop Russia from doing, and continuing, this evil work, killing women and children indiscriminately.

Agriculture must be part of any solution to the climate crisis.

If we would return to the previous Administration's energy policy, we wouldn't be seeing the cost of a barrel of oil doing this.

We are hoping that in the future we can work with the Committee to come up with a solution to address this base issue.

The problem is this war on fossil fuels has caused the input prices to do this.

How important is base acre enrollment to the industry, particularly to young and beginning farmers?

We must become energy independent, and biofuels are ready to fill that gap both domestically and overseas.

Biofuels are a low-cost, low-carbon complement for other fuel sources, and it can be net carbon negative in the next several years.

I think one of the things that we can do to be more proactive in this equation is to turn back on our domestic energy production, and make us energy independent.