
Mr. President, I rise today in support of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, also referred to as the Senate's farm bill. As a member of the Senate Ag Committee, I was proud to work with Senator Roberts and our ranking member, Senator…
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Mr. President, I rise today in support of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, also referred to as the Senate's farm bill. As a member of the Senate Ag Committee, I was proud to work with Senator Roberts and our ranking member, Senator…

I appreciate so much what the IGs do and what you do, Mr. Dodaro.

I think it is important that we not ignore some additional legislative tools, whether it is additional incentives to work with the States...

when you do not do those audits, you do not see the patterns in behavior that either could be deterred or they could be, in fact, prosecuted and deterred.

this is incredibly frustrating to me because it should be the most robust audit program in the Congress and in the Administration, and it seems to me it is not.

I think it is difficult for someone like me to explain to a worker at Bobcat who puts on a shirt every day and gets dirty that he pays more than people living on trust funds.

What I always tell people is--I do something that a lot of people here do not do, which is represent rural America.

I might argue that one of the reasons why you see a decline is the increasing interest rates and burden put on young entrepreneurs by the challenges that they have, which includes student debt.

I do not think it is petty. I think that we are asking banks and financial institutions to perform a function that does not add any value to them but adds value to the country and the security of the financial system as a whole but also…

Chairman Hoeven, Vice-Chairman, and members of the Committee, my name is A-dae Romero-Briones.

Mr. President, there is a reason we have passed the National Defense Authorization Act every year for the past 57 years, and that is because it is vital for the men and women who take responsibility for defending our country. Passing the…

The Department of the Interior is supposed to facilitate tribal resource development.

In my home State of North Dakota, the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation... has been an industry leader in oil production.

These Federal programs are vitally important to Native American communities.

We have to build more, not only natural gas pipelines, but other pipelines as well.

I think that there is a great example of a public safety utilization of this technology.