Mr. President, it is about time. Ninety days after his last meeting with Speaker McCarthy and after weeks of pointblank refusal to engage in discussion, President Biden finally agreed to meet with the Speaker about debt ceiling…

Well, that was a provision that we had included, that I worked to get included in the 2018 Farm Bill.

It has enabled producers to have a great deal of flexibility in that Prairie Pothole region for land that is marginal and should not be in production.

In fact, key members of the Finance Committee, including Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Senator John Thune (R-SD), worked together to introduce this important legislation in the Senate.

This legislation sought to simplify, streamline, and standardize prior authorization processes in the MA program.

Obviously, agriculture is the No. 1 industry in South Dakota, incredibly important to our State, and so the farm bill is always an important conversation.

I, along with Senator Klobuchar, are proposing to make in this bill, to make it a more effective working lands-oriented program in our farm policy.

Obviously, agriculture is the No. 1 industry in South Dakota, incredibly important to our State, and so the farm bill is always an important conversation.

It has enabled producers to have a great deal of flexibility in that Prairie Pothole region for land that is marginal and should not be in production.

I, along with Senator Klobuchar, are proposing to make in this bill, to make it a more effective working lands-oriented program in our farm policy.

Well, that was a provision that we had included, that I worked to get included in the 2018 Farm Bill.

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde- Smith), and the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Ricketts). The result was announced--yeas 49, nays 45, as follows…

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 1337 Be it enacted by the Senate and House…

I look forward to working with Ranking Member Caraveo and others on the Committee on that work.

The difficult task we are starting today is to craft a legislative framework that will allow the next Filecoin or Ethereum to emerge.

I see the potential for valuable tools to be created with digital assets, that will enable Americans to solve some of life's tough problems.

we are tasked with examining digital asset markets and I think, most importantly, understanding what are the gaps in this regulatory framework.

We do have a lot of work to dig into this year, and I am excited to get started.