This is fundamental to our whole approach to trade.
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Those safety nets are designed to keep people on the farm, and to keep them farming so they can do what every farmer that I know wants to do, which is to pass it on to the next generation.
I think it is an important one, and I think it has a rippling effect.
We have heard a lot about how the Administration really wants to support rural America, but bottom line, we are not seeing a lot of action so far.
We have got to figure out how we can create more revenue streams for farmers.
How do you create a circumstance in a farm bill that basically says, yes, we have got to help those big guys. No problem with that. Do not forget about the rest of them, the 90 percent that are struggling every single year.
I appreciate that, and thank you. I think it is important that we have support to some of these smaller, again, farmer-owned, operated facilities.
A lot of the proposals and laws that I hear about when I am out doing the 99-county tour... really reads like the Green New Deal.
Only Congress has the power to approve treaties.
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.
It would help a lot if the President would quit demagoguing the Social Security issue the way he has in recent weeks.
Nobody believes that. People know about the trillions spent in spending binge of the last Congress, and the costly administrative actions.
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.
This administration has dramatically missed inflation for two years in a row.