"How important is it that we ensure farmers and ranchers have access to a level of credit needed to keep pace with the current inflationary environment?"
"the Army's fiscal year 2024 budget request is a $185.5 billion short of the 2018 National Defense Strategy's recommendation of three to 5 percent real growth."
"It's always good to talk about the budget, talking about the fiscal year 2024 budget, trying to figure out what your priorities are, and then again how we can help you, Madam Secretary and General, as..."
"Your priorities are my priorities."
"To me, the farm bill, you know, one of the underlying themes, if maybe not the underlying theme for the agriculture part are the risk management tools, especially now in the very difficult times that ..."
"To me this is just a fundamental thing."
"This farm bill will not neglect the small nor punish the large."
"The world is very different now than it was five years ago when we wrote the last farm bill."
"This decision has some budgetary effects, and I look forward to hearing from you what adjustments to the budget, either already appropriated, or in the future are needed."
"The only thing that is changing on the East Coast is the wind industry. I don't know if that's affecting the whales or not, but we should probably do some kind of a study to find out what is causing t..."
"I find that amazing. It doesn't change the fact that there are dead whales washing up on the shore. You would think the environmental groups would be raising the red flag. But they are turning a blind..."
"Had that happened in the Gulf of Mexico, everybody would be blaming the oil industry."
"Feeling confident and aspirational won't do much to help our energy situation here."
"We are spending a lot of money for veterans. That is not a bad thing."
"I do appreciate the questions about Oracle Cerner, and helping us better understand what is going on."
"I just think diverting $8 million from catastrophic wildfire to electric vehicles is a waste of taxpayer money."
"Disinformation shouldn't dictate policy."
"You have got to have the risk management in order to go forward"
