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When you talk about this $30 million, 142,000 households, what do you think the end of this emergency allotment will mean to those families?

Unless Congress continues to support and improve critical programs like SNAP, we are unlikely to make any meaningful progress towards food security.

I am looking very much forward to working on the 2023 Farm Bill, and on behalf of Iowa farmers and producers in particular, but also so that we can support strong nutrition policy that reduces food insecurity and improves access to…

I am concerned, however, with how food-insecure families will manage as these pandemic-related emergency allotments for SNAP expire.

The updated Thrifty Food Plan, while modest, is estimated to lift about 2.4 million Americans, including more than a million children, out of poverty this year.

Those who are vulnerable and need food should have access to it.

Making sure Americans are fed remains a shared and critical goal for this Committee, I think for most people in Congress.

Unfortunately, Mexico is taking a non-science-based regulatory approach to agricultural products.

The Administration has yet to fill the Under Secretary of Trade and Foreign Agriculture Affairs position, and the Chief Agriculture Negotiator has not been filled.

I want year-round E15, and if you could pass that along to the Administration.

I know I am in a rural community when I am talking to a group of people who care deeply about their home but none of them are grant writers.

Our family farmers are also a key part of the solution, and they have been champions of conservation and stewards of their land for generations.

As this Committee continues its work on reviewing the 2018 Farm Bill in preparation for next year, it is clear to me that we need strong investment in conservation and renewable energy in order to meet the ever-increasing challenge of…

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I really hope that we continue with that in the next farm bill, because people are finally getting comfortable about exactly what these programs are.

So farmers were able to survive those challenges due to strong farm safety provided through crop insurance, Title I programs, and recent ad hoc programs.

It is so important that we keep Mexico as a trading partner.

It takes the Marxists ideology that once only existed in textbooks and makes it law in the United States.