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This landmark investment will be game changing for Iowans and communities along the Mississippi River.

The time for that is over. The time for-- especially with labor shortages.

It is absolutely vital. It is absolutely essential, and I would say it is going to require some political encouragement.

I think there is still an opportunity and a hope that there is enough bipartisan support to get this passed.

That is absolutely one of the priorities and one of the areas that we are focused on.

Will giving producers more leverage and market information help address some of the issues that we are seeing in our cattle markets?

The answer to that question is yes.

We have also provided $100 million of what we refer to as reach and resiliency resources for food banks across the country

We are looking forward at some point in time early in 2022 in announcing a Healthy Food Financing Initiative

I want to focus on the phrase, extraction economy.

I appreciate the opportunity to be here today, and also to Representative Thompson, thank you for the opportunity to appear before the Committee.

The key here, Representative, is to make sure that we get it done as quickly as possible.

I found it unusual to have put FEMA in charge of vaccine and vaccine clinics.

As we all know, the Trump administration under Operation Warp Speed developed three safe and effective vaccines.

Do you know who held the Senate during that period of time on the issue you brought up? It was Democratic Senators from the South. Remember when the Civil Rights Act, in 1965, was passed, that there was a higher share--a higher…

Remember what I said, and I just said this. So you obviously heard me. We warned, in 2013, when I think all Republicans voted against reducing the 60-vote threshold for district court and circuit court judges, so you could pack the DC…

We cannot keep shoveling money into a fire, watching as it happens, and pretending that everything is fine.

The dire need for carbon reduction can't wait and be achieved when we have electric vehicles alone as the only option.