Can you commit to making sure that any efforts to expand the Crop Insurance Programs are science-based, peer-reviewed, and protect the integrity of the program?

The 2023 Farm Bill must provide our producers with the risk management tools required to farm and ranch in this new reality.

The reality suggests the existing safety nets need to be enhanced.

Can you commit to making sure that any efforts to expand the Crop Insurance Programs are science-based, peer-reviewed, and protect the integrity of the program?

A newly reinforced safety net is essential if the United States would like our farmers and ranchers to continue to produce the most abundant, most affordable, and safest food supply in the world.

We do need to work on trade. We do need to make American, not only mining, but processing and manufacturing, stronger than ever before.

As we pour more money into an electrified economy, we are increasing the labor participation rate in Congo with forced labor, with child slave labor.

We also need an all-of-the-above minerals approach: new mining, recycling, and being as efficient and effective as we can.

We are also seeing actions from the Administration to shut down mining, and those two things really don't go hand in hand.

Congress has stepped up, but as you know that is a difficult process.

Oversight should be a bipartisan effort by Congress to exercise our constitutional duty to have checks and balances over an administration.

And if we develop those minerals here and develop the other parts of the supply chain, then that means generating huge amounts of wealth for the United States, for U.S. workers, for great jobs in rural communities.

We can't mine and permit our way out of this. Actually, we would have to permit and then mine.

The current safety net is frayed and is in dire need of meaningful reinforcement.

Seventy billion dollars is a huge amount of money, and we can be proud that we are doing that.

The 2023 Farm Bill must provide our producers with the risk management tools required to farm and ranch in this new reality.

The reality suggests the existing safety nets need to be enhanced.

Our producers are one trade war, one natural disaster or market downturn, or geopolitical conflict away from having to sell the farm.