Madam President, it is clearly apparent by listening to this debate, if Senator Sanders had been on the PEB board, the PEB board wouldn't be making a recommendation and the President wouldn't be behind it. But that is where we are, short…

Mr. Speaker, on May 21, 2023, NASCAR's All-Star Race will return to North Wilkesboro Speedway for the first time in more than a quarter century. Since its inception in 1947, North Wilkesboro Speedway has hosted 93 NASCAR Cup races, and has…

We have our public policy work cut out for us still, Madam Chairwoman, and while we have made strides, we have more strides to make.

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.

Democrat Governor Roy Cooper signed it into law in October 2021.

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

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…

Soil health is imperative to American health.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

So, the customer still needs to be banked regardless of the risk, correct?

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?

As this Congress continues to make critical investments to mitigate climate change, I am hoping that our witnesses can provide testimony that gives us solutions to help farms of all sizes.