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Secretary Vilsack has cast the efforts to improve America's access to nutritious food as a part of the racial justice effort.

This is an issue of very intense interest, particularly the American Farm Bureau has it at the top of their priority list.

Secretary Vilsack, that agency needs reform.

It is time we rethink current policies that have allowed monopolies to flourish at the expense of farmers and consumers.

I appreciate the commitment to this issue of systemic discrimination.

We need to dig deeper to determine other important yields from these investments as they lend themselves to what I call creating an ecosystem of liveability.

If we are going to do it overseas, determine how that is going to be implemented.

Most of my friends on the other side of the aisle have signed the Grover Norquist no new tax pledge

The current Federal minimum wage has not been raised since 2009 and at $7.25 an hour it amounts to just around $15,000 per year.

More than doubling the current Federal minimum wage over the next 5 years, we are asking small businesses to really bear the entire burden.

I firmly believe that we do need to raise the minimum wage in this country to get it to a living wage.

I think we should prioritize it.

We have MILCON projects that are emergencies, and we have talked about a couple of them today, and we have to have the deep pockets of DOD involved.

The Army, which, as you all know, I represent Fort Hood--its goal is to get to 25 percent energy consumed from renewables by 2025 and to be zero by 2030.

I, too, have concerns about our neighbors to the south and what is going on with the Chinese down there.

I will soon be introducing the Federal Extremist Protection Order Act, a bill that actually gives families, neighbors, and law enforcement an additional tool to make sure that people who are a danger to themselves or to others do not have…

At their core, hate crimes and domestic terrorism are attacks on who we are, where we come from, what we believe, and the democratic values that unite us as Americans.

I believe it is an important concept to work into our roadway planning and design.