the IRS beat Secretary Yellen's goal and delivered an 87 percent quality level of service

Madam Speaker, as a member of the House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border and Foreign Affairs, I rise in strong support of emergency aid for our Democratic ally and partner and for the people of Ukraine, now entering the third…

I continue to be concerned about Buy American requirements in school meals. American dollars should support American-produced food products.

raiding programs that invest in high-demand conservation and nutrition initiatives like SNAP do not achieve a bipartisan farm bill, but instead they hurt the people who are struggling today.

The hypocrisy of this Administration knows no bounds, and a prime example is your shifting positions on the ideal farm size in less than a decade.

In the last 8 years, you seem to have forgotten that the small number of producers you now demonize are responsible for 80 percent of the production.

Every one of us that is not a farmer is not a farmer because we have farmers.

The Republican Majority is trying to defund our nation's financial intelligence unit by cutting the budget of FinCEN.

My friends complain about the cost of groceries at the supermarket, and yet they are advocating policies that will make it more difficult for people to be able to afford those groceries.

Your majority has been ineffective, and what you are doing and what you are advocating is highly unpopular.

If we do not have democracy in the U.S. House right now we cannot expect to be the leader of democracy worldwide.

My Republican friends complain about the cost of some of these programs. They don't talk about the savings and avoidable healthcare costs that result by investing in these nutrition programs.

we're in the greatest threat globally that we have been in since World War II in this regard.

They want you to focus on helping struggling families instead to be able to put nutritious food on the table.

the place where this will be met is right here in this U.S. House.

I don't think it is a radical idea to want a farm bill that supports small- and medium-sized farms, that supports conservation.

He's put our national security at risk. He's put the sources of intelligence at risk.

The bottom line is the benefit, let's be honest, is inadequate.