Crafting a farm bill that addresses all the pressures farm families and the agriculture industry face is no easy task.

So, some lessons that we have learned for providing special criminal jurisdiction on missing and murdered indigenous people, we could think about applying that to create a drug crime special jurisdiction that could have some of the same…

Just terrible violence that was driven by drug trafficking.

This is often because these areas either lack or have outdated basic community infrastructure like hospitals, childcare centers, and senior care centers.

This bipartisan bill would expand the successful rural water circuit rider program to include cybersecurity technical assistance and authorize funding to hire a cybersecurity circuit rider for all 50 states.

I strongly urge the Committee to reject misguided and harmful attacks on this program and protect it for the next generation of sugarbeet and cane farmers across the country and especially in western Minnesota.

The court said the SEC is adopting its litigation positions to further its desired goal and not out of faithful allegiance to the law.

I want to also thank my colleague and good friend from the great state of Alaska, Representative Peltola, for her leadership in introducing this legislation.

Following his passing last year, I was honored to assume first sponsorship of the bill, and I did not hesitate to co-sponsor the legislation when Representative Peltola asked me to do so earlier this summer.

I urge you to consider H.R. 4786, the Feeding Children Not Fraudsters Act, which would audit any cases of COVID-related fraud committed through USDA's child nutrition programs.

I look forward to continuing this work until all responsible parties are held accountable, and we get to the bottom of how these agencies allowed this fraud to happen.

I have been proud to work with Chairwoman Foxx, Chairman Comer, Chairman Thompson, and the rest of the Minnesota republican delegation in conducting oversight of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Minnesota Department of Education.

It is abundantly clear that critical minerals will be the most important global commodity of the 21st century.

The United States has the opportunity to not only be critical mineral independent but critical mineral dominant as well.

Did everybody hear that? Readiness from the United States would be in danger.

Mr. Chair, I rise today in support of H.R. 5283, the Protecting our Communities from Failure to Secure the Border Act, which I am proud to cosponsor. Plenty of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle will stand here today and protest…

Madam President, I rise today in strong support of Senator Murray's Child Care Stabilization Act. We know how much of a lifeline this program has been for families, for childcare providers, and our economy since it was established in 2021…

Now, even our Federal lands meant for conservation, recreation, and development of our great natural resources are being turned into campgrounds for traffickers and terrorists who are marching into our country and breaking our immigration…