I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I join my Michigan colleague, Representative Slotkin, in support of H. Res. 554. This resolution is an important bipartisan affirmation of our support of religious and ethnic minorities in…

As chairman of the Africa Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, I have time and time again brought attention to the crises going on on the African Continent while the rest of the world looks the other way. Mr. Speaker, where…

I want to recognize the recent surge in anti- Palestinian, anti-Arab, and Islamophobic hate crimes in our country. The constant dehumanization of Palestinians has very real and deadly consequences. The hateful rhetoric, including from many…

I am honored to join my colleagues today in highlighting the accomplishments and ongoing challenges facing access to high-quality healthcare in rural and remote parts of our United States. Healthcare providers in areas like Michigan's…

I support this amendment. I am glad to see that many of my Republican colleagues are taking a real interest, obviously, in clean air and energy production, but clean energy projects can't truly be considered clean if the permitting…

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

Would you expect them to be terminated as well?

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

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

Thank you so much. And thank you, Senator Klobuchar, for your current leadership and future leadership on the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. You know, I would say that, at any other time, putting forward a bill would be…

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

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

for more than 2 years, I have been working with colleagues on both sides of the aisle to pass my sixth farm bill, the third one that I have either been chair or ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and…

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…

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…

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…

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…