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We have identified those five additional states.

I appreciate the support from Congress.

This Budget is not a wish list, it is a to do list.

Inflation has created a hidden value-added tax on our small businesses in Iowa and throughout the country.

You do not get to create the laws.

Rest assured, members of this Committee will not stop seeking answers as to why over $77.9 million in taxpayer money was illegally given and now forgiven to Planned Parenthood.

No, thank you, and I appreciate you raising the issue of childcare.

It is the law. Secretary Mnuchin fulfilled this responsibility to do so. Secretary Yellen is nowhere to be found.

While Congress cannot protect cattle producers and their businesses from being shunned by packers for testifying, Members of this Committee certainly shouldn't facilitate or allow packers to intimidate witnesses prior to a hearing.

We've expressed the need to address the following primary challenges: lack of price discovery and transparency, meatpacking industry consolidation leading to fewer competitors, captive supply, and price manipulation.

I will contest that there is a control on the markets through line speeds and the amount being slaughtered that can manipulate the markets.

Here you have the big four packers that control the large packer capacity, up to maybe 80, 85 percent.

If some packers are allowed to not participate in the cash markets, would they not be able to manipulate the regional supply of cattle by simply shifting their captive supply from one region to the next?

Today, consumers are literally paying more for their beef, producers are receiving less for their cattle, and yet your four companies' net incomes have reached record highs.

Since 1980, roughly 17,000 cattle producers have gone out of business every year.

You all hold tremendous power in the cattle industry, together accounting for over 80 percent of the market.

Innovation and supply chain is going to be critical going forward...

I am very concerned with the Biden Administration's regulatory agenda from bowing down to unions...