I rise today to urge my colleagues to confirm several highly qualified nominees to serve on the local District of Columbia courts--the DC Superior Court, which functions as the State-level trial court, and the DC Court of Appeals, which…

We know that this lack of access--we have heard it over and over again as Members of Congress--to traditional capital has made it incredibly difficult for women and minority entrepreneurs to stand up and grow their business.

The antidote to avoiding consolidation in agriculture and thus keeping farmers and ranchers independent and family owned is to ensure that the safety net works for regular full time farm families.

It’s been crickets. And it’s been a call to vigilante justice, which is unacceptable.

We need law in order. We need to backup our police. We need to black up our election workers.

We can help address the need for emergency food bank support by providing an additional $900 million for food purchases through TEFAP.

I am very appreciative of all the work that you have done in the past and are doing now to help farm families like mine carry on the important work we do for the country and for people around the world.

What lessons have we learned coming out of January 6?

Farm policy rules can no more hold back market realities than auto or home mortgage lenders can expect to lend at loan levels set decades ago.

This is running rampant in a major political party. So we have a gubernatorial candidate, we have a state senate candidate, and we have a former president who refuses to admit he lost an election, and incited a riot on the Capitol injuring…

We are at a crisis moment in America. This is a sickness. With guns in the rhetoric, it is in our political dialogue, it is anti-democratic. And I am calling it out.

We need to act, we need to take this seriously. And yes, it’s a moment of reckoning what’s going on with the Republican Party in this country right now.

Planting flexibility is extremely important to farmers, both economically and agronomically.

From a rice perspective, if we were to lose so much acreage that the infrastructure could not be maintained, we would lose the U.S. rice industry--and once lost it would not come back.

Senate Agriculture Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow has made public remarks pushing for a major increase in conservation program funding.

the record is very clear in terms of the robust economy and what is happening right now.

we should be using American tax dollars to purchase those things.

I have, as you know, been laser-focused with my colleague, Senator Roy Blunt, creating a system where health care above the neck is funded to help the same as health care below the neck.