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Thank you, and thank you, Madam Chairwoman, for hosting this hearing today or organizing the hearing today.

As a matter of American policy, why are we driving people away from our friendship as a nation and towards seeking a country that does not adhere to our rules of law, our concept of human rights, and our struggle to improve human rights?

When innocent people and legitimate businesses are being shut off from financial services, we need to take a step back.

De-risking is a critical issue, and the last time we talked about de-risking in a committee hearing was back in 2008.

Without action on this issue, we risk ceding our leadership in this region to countries like China and Russia.

In de-risking, we want to make sure that the knock-on effects of this are not so severe that we actually go against our common interest here.

But, because of its misplaced spending priorities, USDA turns away two out of every three farmers seeking conservation assistance designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Agriculture is a significant and growing source of greenhouse emissions.

Congress must reform these programs to fulfill the promise of the IRA funding and ensure it flows to greenhouse gas reducing practices.

Voluntary conservation programs administered by the Department of Agriculture could play a significant role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Unless we reduce agricultural emissions of nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide and methane, we will fail to achieve the greenhouse gas reductions needed to avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis.

It is time for a massive shift to save our agri-system.

Soil is the source of our lives, and it is responsible for life on Earth.

If we bring small farms back into our rural communities across the United States, we will not only have a local food system that doesn't depend on the fossil fuels to get it to the shelf, but it can go directly from the farms to the…

Education is the key.

The alarm to increasing soil degradation leads me to acknowledge that regenerative agriculture is part of the solution to this crisis.

Unlike organic agriculture, which must meet Federal standards and are subject to inspections, regenerative agriculture lacks a clear scientific definition.

I can tell you every news station in my home state last week was running stories about drought and showing just the devastation to small farmers.