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A lot of the proposals and laws that I hear about when I am out doing the 99-county tour... read like the Green New Deal.

We have seen a lot of spending, a lot of spending, and Iowans, you know, are feeling as if they have been thrown under the bus and not really seeing the benefit.

Only Congress has the power to approve treaties.

It would help a lot if the President would quit demagoguing the Social Security issue the way he has in recent weeks.

Lawmakers should address the projected trust fund shortfalls in a timely way in order to phase in necessary changes gradually and give workers and beneficiaries time to adjust to them.

This administration has dramatically missed inflation for two years in a row.

Your response to that?

People know about the trillions spent in spending binge of the last Congress, and the costly administrative actions.

The President in this budget's supporting documents continue to falsely claim that he is a deficit reducer.

The more Congress borrows and spends, the higher interest rates will have to go up, and ultimately, it's families and small businesses that will suffer the economic consequences.

Let's actually do our job and have the Budget Committee mark up a budget resolution.

Clearly, we aren't going to be able to tax our way out of the current fiscal mess.

I'm going to start with Mr. Mangual. Last year, I held a field hearing in Iowa for the Drug Caucus that I co-chair with Chairman Whitehouse.

I am told that by 2025, we will get that job done.

I am supportive of it, but let me just simply say I think you need to go beyond that.

We will never put at risk the farm bill programs. That is what happened before.

It is my belief that the USDA's discretionary use of CCC undercuts this Committee farm bill process.

I am going to start out with my favorite subject every time we have a farm bill up, on farm payment limitations.