Politics

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

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

Thank you to the Secretary. I had just a month ago best-of-breed growers in my district...

I would humbly suggest and I am glad to see that these cooperative agreements are in place.

Those solar panels do nothing but help our adversary China.

My view is the Federal Government should either support producers or get out of their way.

I have been working on a bill for a couple of years called the American Agriculture Security Act of 2024.

Now, nearly a year later, we are still working towards our shared goal of passing a strong, effective, and bipartisan farm bill.

Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing today. And I certainly welcome our distinguished Secretary Vilsack.

I am on your side. I am your champion, and I will never stop fighting for you.

And that is what I hear time and time again from the producers I represent.

I would agree in part and disagree in part with the Chairman.

May I ask for a recorded vote, Mr. Chair?

I fully support this bill and hope we will ensure passage.

The need for America and American leadership is no greater at this moment than I can think of.

One persistent problem that I have been focused on for the time that I have been here in Congress, both in the United States trade agreements and broader trade agenda, is the issue of forced labor.

I am so glad we are addressing it legislatively here today.

Chairman Smith, I hope that the members who were listening will apply all of the comments I made before my amendment was read to my amendment.