What you are hearing is uncertainty.

This is fundamental to our whole approach to trade.

What you are hearing is uncertainty.

I am supportive of it, but let me just simply say I think you need to go beyond that.

This has been with us for a while.

Only Congress has the power to approve treaties.

I am going to start out with my favorite subject every time we have a farm bill up, on farm payment limitations.

It is my belief that the USDA's discretionary use of CCC undercuts this Committee farm bill process.

It would help a lot if the President would quit demagoguing the Social Security issue the way he has in recent weeks.

Lawmakers should address the projected trust fund shortfalls in a timely way in order to phase in necessary changes gradually and give workers and beneficiaries time to adjust to them.

We have heard a lot about how the Administration really wants to support rural America, but bottom line, we are not seeing a lot of action so far.

I appreciate that, and thank you. I think it is important that we have support to some of these smaller, again, farmer-owned, operated facilities.

We will never put at risk the farm bill programs. That is what happened before.

90 percent of our farmers need help.

This is fundamental to our whole approach to trade.

Those safety nets are designed to keep people on the farm, and to keep them farming so they can do what every farmer that I know wants to do, which is to pass it on to the next generation.

I think it is an important one, and I think it has a rippling effect.

I am told that by 2025, we will get that job done.