If the Department of Agriculture is going to play a direct or indirect part in carbon banking or greenhouse gas reduction practices, highly fertile and productive lands cannot be moved into retirement in attempts to achieve this.

Additionally, any programs like this either through the Government or the private sector must be voluntary, market-driven, and incentive-based.

I am excited about being here. Alabama's farmers and rural communities sent me here to be their voice, and I plan to fight hard on their behalf.

Rural Alabama and rural communities all across our Nation must not be forgotten, and I will use my position on this Committee to express the views and opinions of Alabama farmers.

We send these young men and women to war. We pay them $38,000, and I get more calls on veterans than anything.

It seems like it takes us forever, you know, to come up with any kind of answer to something like this, and now we have the burn pits.

We are losing 22 veterans a day to suicide, and that has really increased since this virus.

All veterans need a vaccine. They all need it.

We have got to get rid of this thing. I mean, and people do not take this if they are leery of it.

Our country is in trouble, and it is going to be solved a lot by our technology.

Mr. President, they just took the vice president out, I`ve got to go.