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.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.J. Res. 44, which will nullify the ATF's overreaching and unconstitutional rule to regulate firearms that happen to have stabilizing braces such as…

The cost of that was lives.

Good morning and welcome to today's hearing on agricultural research and extension activities across the nation's universities.

I am here because of people.

Regulations like workplace safety standards enforced by OSHA, environmental protection provisions enforced by the EPA...

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

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…

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.

it is an honor to be here with all of you to give this maiden speech, and I want to thank the senior Senator from Missouri. We may be the youngest combo. He is younger than I, but he is the senior Senator. He reminds me of that quite often…

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

Climate change is this real thing.

It's outrageous. It's absolutely outrageous.

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

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).

It's a direct violation of child labor laws.

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.'

My Republican colleagues want to pretend that thoughts and prayers are enough to stop bullets as if they do not have the power to make our community safer.