I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 145, line 7, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $37,735,000)''. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant…

60 percent of our people are living paycheck to paycheck.

Time is wasting and we have a sketchy situation over there on the other side of the building so we better get to work pretty quickly to get that five-year farm bill passed.

We have more income and wealth inequality than any time since the Gilded Age.

I would like to especially acknowledge Chairman Sanders' role in helping pass this legislation, along with many other Members of this Committee, including Dr. Cassidy who worked to extend the program that saved our jobs and our industry.

Thank you, Chairman McHenry, and thank you to our witnesses for taking the time to be here with us today.

It is absolutely essential that we pass legislation like the PRO Act, to make it easier for workers to organize.

This policy, including the PRO Act, would take away the ability of 27 million workers to choose how to earn a living.

Congress must pass S. 567, the Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act of 2023.

It's simple. As a country, we can choose to collectively encourage the growth of good union jobs that pay family sustaining wages and allow those good jobs to set the standard for competition within an industry or we can continue to allow…

They are trying to do things that regenerate the soil. They are trying to do things that reduce the cost of a lot of these inputs so that their profitability is greater, at the end of the day, obviously what is important.

When you go to work at UPS as a Teamster, you get the highest wages in the industry, you get a pension, you get real protections on the job, and you get a fully paid health care plan that's better than the one I have as General President…

How do we create an economy that works for all of us, all of our people, and not just the few?

I think in terms of AI and their impact on those two areas, on the Extension side I mentioned this idea of there are not enough Extension agents out there right now, because really, they are experts in 100 different things.

Talk to me about that soil health, because that is a real concern for our farmers.

Teamsters changed the game at UPS, battling it out day and night to make sure our members won an agreement that pays strong wages, rewards their labor, and doesn't require a single concession.

Over $50 trillion in wealth has gone from the bottom 90 percent to the top 1 percent.

Look, what we are dealing with today, and Senator Lujan made this point and others have made the point, is some people have extraordinary wealth and extraordinary power.