this budget is at a critical point, at a transformational point, in my view, in rural America, and in agriculture.
What I can tell you, Senator, and I will get a specific answer to that hypothetical.
It would likely mean a loss of 40,000 rental assistance units in rural America.
No one ever addresses just how harmful their decarbonization dreams would be in practice.
If those budget cuts, even the most conservative budget cut, that is to say, putting it back to levels of several years ago, would result, n...
we have had a record year in farm income in the last 2 years; however, that bounty has not been fully shared by all farmers
It would mean 6,600 farmers wouldn't get the credit they need to continue farming operations.
investments in research that create new opportunities; new income opportunities, is a way of maintaining those small- and mid-sized farming ...
There is nothing more foundational to a country's security and stability than its food supply.
I would say, frankly, that as a Nation we have underfunded research in agriculture for far too long.
Transparency, the sunlight is an incredibly important tool.
The reality is that we don't need another study, there are literally hundreds of studies about the safety of this technology.
I think one of the biggest concerns is a clear lack of communication between CBP and ICE.
I think Iowans and Americans deserve accountability here for their tax dollars and for their numbers.
the American people understand that border security is national security, and this is a failure.
When the Chief of the Border Patrol is telling us that the border is not secure and that men and women at the border feel disrespected by th...
We have to control this mass flow of illicit drugs through our systems, and I think some of it is on increasing penalties for traffickers in...
It is zero. It is zero, Mr. Secretary.