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I urge all of my colleagues to support this legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:45 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, December 3, 2024, at 12 noon…

Not when you go to the grocery store, no, that is certainly not. And then we add support for food banks. We add additional assistance and incentives if you are buying fresh fruits and vegetables. We do, you know, some other kinds of…

Well, first of all, let me say the basic program is called SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, is about $6 a day for an individual. So a mom gets $6; her child gets $6.

There is no question. And we also have extensive evidence that when a bill is put forward on the floor that cuts the nutrition title, it never passes--2012 in the House, 2018 in the House. When Republican colleagues only put a bill on the…

There is. And thank you so much. And thank you for being a valuable member of the committee. I would just say where--we know and you know leading the Judiciary Committee, where there is a will, there is a way. If people want to come…

Yes. Now, we could pass an extension again and throw this into the lap of everyone next year. That doesn't create any more certainty for farmers. Those who want to just do some ad hoc payments, you know, that is not going to work. And so…

Well, if we do nothing, then a number of programs revert to what is called a Depression-era policy, and there is something called the dairy cliff that everybody is always worried about because it goes back to a pricing structure that would…

The current farm bill expires at the end of December. So we have to do something before we leave in December.

Would you expect them to be terminated as well?

Do you think that is worthy of investigating?

So, we terminated Ms. Washington 3 weeks after you were made aware of it.

There has been a pattern of discrimination, and I think from what I have listened to, you want to clean it up today, right?

I think we need a better process because we are a public government entity. We should not act like the for-profit insurance companies.

I want my colleagues to hear this, especially one colleague. I think there could be a bipartisan effort here.

Many of my residents still currently struggle with ongoing emotional toll as well as the cost of flood damage.

I am encouraged to see the United States, Canada, and Finland coming together with the intent to establish an Icebreaker Collaboration Effort, or the ICE Pact.

I was talking about Donald Trump's comments about his political enemies and the enemy within in this country. And I think people do get disturbed by his language at times and it makes people take a pause and think about it.