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I am proud to support legislation like the Relief for America's Small Farmers Act, which would boost all of our Nation's small farmers through debt relief and uplift their operations.

The USDA must do more to address underlying issues at the Department of Agriculture and better support our small-scale farmers.

I am glad to have joined Senator Tina Smith in requesting no less than $60 billion in funding for rural broadband, community infrastructure, business development.

I have heard from farmers who are saddled with debt, or who have historically struggled to access assistance.

People are disconnected and the implications for their health care, for education, for the marketplace, distance learning, is difficult to overstate.

This is about some people not wanting some people to vote.

Ensuring that this program is able to provide benefits for employees who missed work due to COVID-19, like both many state-run and federal employee compensation programs, is both essential and common sense.

The pandemic has hit all these constituents really hard.

We need to make sure also that there are strong labor protections attached to those.

We have the evidence that these programs work.

As recovery proceeds, we have to ensure that it is equitable.

It goes without saying that I have a lot of constituents working in the transportation sector.

A $7.25 minimum wage is hardly a living wage?

One of the greatest threats we have is ransomware from the outside. So I think one of the greatest defenses we have is home-grown talent that can defend against that.

So I see that as not being a great return on investment and we are losing out on the opportunity to develop Americans who can fill those jobs.

Oftentimes we see our universities and businesses invest in people that we bring in from overseas and we teach them cyber and they take up the opportunities that we have in this country and they learn all sorts of great things and then…

The key is global emissions. We do not live in a vacuum here.

I am convinced that we can do that and still grow our economy at the same time.