The biggest challenge young people have getting into agriculture is availability of land and availability of credit.

We are bringing Members of Congress here to see what you all see everyday, to hear your desires, receive your input, and therefore make better laws and policies when we are in the halls of Congress back in Washington.

Small towns and rural places are creative, entrepreneurial, diverse, and wonderful places to live and to work and to raise a family.

We have got to find some way to make sure that we can draw young people back to this industry.

We have a serious shortage of housing in this country, especially in rural communities.

Thank you so much, Senator Hyde-Smith.

Our working lands programs are oversubscribed.

We need to protect our small farmers, our large farmers, and every farmer in between.

I would also like to thank Senator Rounds for his partnership on the Rural Housing Reform legislation that we announced this morning.

We need to make sure that we are developing markets and that we are developing a marketplace that creates that future for beginning farmers.

I invited President Obama to come to an underground mine in my district. I invited him personally having to come to the district for something else, and I invited him. And he never came.

As your Congressman, I am pleased to bring the Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee to your auditorium.

Everybody has been saying today that everything is local, and one size does not fit all, and those FSA offices need to support that.

we are going to be talking about the bill that I have been working on with Senator Rounds to modernize and improve the Rural Housing Service

I have really enjoyed this conversation and hearing your very substantive responses to all of our questions.

I have really enjoyed this conversation and hearing your very substantive responses to all of our questions.

I rise to join Senator Cardin, thanking him for his leadership for so many years, as well as Senator Murkowski and my colleague Senator Stabenow in support of this bipartisan resolution to remove the deadline for the ratification of the…

You know, since Dobbs, States like Minnesota and Illinois have become islands of care in the middle of the country.