food security is national security

Are you willing to work on a bipartisan basis so that we can move these nominees as expeditiously as possible without getting into the weeds on someone that many of us suspect might be a saboteur of the Bank?

One of the great fears that we have is that the suggestion of the leadership of the Ex-Im Bank going to former Representative Scott Garrett... would not advance the interest of the Bank.

One of the demands of the American public and the responsibility of Washington, DC, is to encourage economic growth.

I thank Mr. Davis and my colleague, Mr. Peterson, from across the Red River in Minnesota for their support for this renaming of the Red River Valley Agricultural Research Center. For all of the reasons that Representative Peterson talked…

You have an obligation not only to the taxpayers and people of this country. You have a treaty obligation to meet these standards under treaty obligations.

I come to the floor this afternoon to honor the incredible men and women of our Nation's law enforcement agencies. Each year, peace officers from all over the country and from countries all over the world come to Washington, DC, to…

It is a matter, in some cases, of life and death.

We are struggling every day in Indian Country in this country with poor schools, poor health care, poor law enforcement, and lack of housing.

We cannot afford to wait six years to address the issues that GAO has set forth.

It is critically important to remember that... there may come a time when you are asked to do something that is not in the interest of the American people.

I think the recent examples of disclosing classified information to foes is not a step in the right direction.

The larger concern is just what seems to be a lack of communication discipline coming out of the White House. And I think some of that is driven by the desire to have an immediate response to everything.

I have a request for the Indians Affairs Committee to meet today at 2:30 p.m. First, we have a markup in the Indian Affairs Committee. The two bills we are marking up are Democrat-sponsored bills. The first one is Senator Tester's bill…

We need advice. We need information. And we are going to have a choice here.

We cannot have rural development without housing. We cannot have economic development without housing.

I am over my time, Mr. Watt. I am sure we will have more conversations about this in the future.

now is the time to get back to basics. The Federal Government doesn't exist for its own sake, it exists for the people, and if Federal regulation serves no useful function for the people, then it only serves to hold back our Nation's…