The Biden administration has a policy that if you're an unaccompanied child not from Canada or Mexico, you will not be sent back to the country of origin.

Have a consistent policy. Send children back to their home country even if they're not from Mexico or Canada. This will stop overnight.

These kids are literally being sold as slaves in the United States of America in the year 2023 and nobody's responsible.

It's a direct violation of child labor laws.

Have a consistent policy. Send children back to their home country even if they're not from Mexico or Canada. This will stop overnight.

These kids are literally being sold as slaves in the United States of America in the year 2023 and nobody's responsible.

Let the record reflect that this administration has let tens of thousands of children be sold into slavery.

The policy choices of the Biden administration are creating an unending flow of children to this country.

This is totally, utterly, completely unacceptable.

At that hearing, we also heard about the backlog of deferred maintenance on research facilities across the nation.

Thank you for holding today's hearing titled: 'A Review of Title VII: University Perspectives on Research and Extension Programs.'

Many of the programs that provide capacity and competitive funding for these institutions are authorized in the research title of the farm bill.

Today, the land-grant universities have a mission that is threefold: to provide instruction, conduct research, and disseminate the instruction and research throughout each state through the Cooperative Extension Service.

China is no longer hiding the fact that it seeks to replace the United States of America as the world's dominant power.

it is my great privilege to say a very few words in introduction of my friend and fellow Senator, Eric Schmitt, as he prepares to give his maiden speech on this floor. We haven't worked together very long in the Senate, but we have known…

Members of this committee were among the very first to sound the alarm bells on China's insidious Belt and Road Initiative, Xi Jinping's plan to extend China's influence across the globe through predatory investments, debt trap diplomacy.

Recognizing the role of other universities, the 2008 Farm Bill included provisions to identify non-land-grant colleges of agriculture (NLGCAs) and Hispanic-serving agricultural colleges and universities (HSACUs).

When USDA was created by President Lincoln in 1862, the primary objective of the Department was to 'acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture.'