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I would like to thank Chairman Conaway, Ranking Member Peterson, and Members of the House Committee on Agriculture for holding a hearing on food waste and for inviting me to speak today.

It would create much less waste, something that most of us agree on, and you will find most of the manufacturers and others agree on it as well.

Our idea is to ask the USDA and the FDA to work together to create a label, one that says expires on, for those foods that really do have a safety issue.

We actually submitted a bill last week with Senator Blumenthal about date labeling to try to bring some sensibility into this.

Making sure that there are Federal funds available to municipalities who want to do that is another part of this.

In my own state, we have a supermarket chain that is also committed to zero food waste.

There is certainly no single way to go about solving this problem, and I know as you dig deeper into it today and you hear from the wonderful panel that you have chosen, you will start to hear that it is something we have to face on all…

It is wonderful to see that the USDA and the EPA together have announced a food waste reduction goal.

And when there is confusion around date labeling or how food can be disposed of, with the good Samaritan laws that we have talked about, it just makes it that much more difficult for restaurants and retail stores to find out how to make…

We do have 50 million people in this country going hungry.

40 percent of the food, as you mentioned, is wasted in this country.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 8:14 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, May 19, 2016, at 9:30 a.m…

For the information of all Senators, at 11:15 a.m. tomorrow, the Senate is expected to proceed to three rollcall votes: a motion to waive the budget with respect to the Blunt-Murray Zika amendment, adoption of the Blunt amendment, and…

I share your concern about the engagement level the Department has shown in rural communities.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:14 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, May 17, 2016, at 10 a.m…

That allowed us to move forward on the appropriations bill we are now considering. I am very pleased, and I thank the ranking member for working so cooperatively, and I thank all of the sponsors of these amendments for working with us so…

Listen, and once you do nuclear you have fixed your energy costs and your fuel costs.

I think one of the great mistakes we made in this country in the nuclear industry was having each plant being an individual plant with its own unique design rather than a standardized design.