Economy

What has the IRS done to restore an element of fairness to the tax system?

While Committee Republicans have spent their time trying to roll back worker protection, the Biden administration and congressional Democrats have prioritized building a stronger economy for all.

We all are making laws for business owners, yet we don't listen to them.

You had more money and you did less work. That does not make any sense. What is the problem?

The Department of Labor's proposed overtime rule is deeply concerning for the well-being of our Nation's small businesses.

USDA understands the need for a strong labor pool for farmers.

But the fact is that, to do that, there are good ways to do that and there are ways that really aren't helping the American farmer.

If you raise the minimum wage, you would reduce the SNAP population by a significant amount.

There is no doubt that there are many, many, many working poor, working poor with an emphasis on working.

The Biden Administration manipulated the methodology and avoided commonsense procedures, adding 1/4 of $1 trillion to the SNAP baseline.

Quite frankly, it is a unilateral insertion of USDA into the private marketplace, costing billions in taxpayer dollars with zero metrics for success and zero transparency.

I would hope that we would be trying to feed more people, not less here in America.

Dairy is an economic engine for the upper Midwest and provides bountiful nutrition for millions of Americans.

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.

I was out visiting a farm in Caroline County, and a farmer said he has 1,000 acres of cereal rye.

I come from Virginia where our number one private industry is agriculture.

We don't. And we are importing more food than we ever have in this country.