John Boozman

If confirmed, will you commit to continuing this effort to ensure that livestock producers have a predictable, science-based, regulatory process

I congratulate Mrs. Moffitt on her nomination and thank her for her willingness to serve our country.

Advancements in biotechnology give agriculture producers a significant tool in fighting pests and diseases

WOTUS has been a huge burden to my State in the past, with the agriculture community.

If confirmed, will you work with our cities, agriculture, State governments, and stakeholders, to create a rule that won't get held up for years in the courts?

It is so, so very important.

If they are competing on that basis, I think that is a good thing for the vet, at the end of the day.

I remain committed to providing the VA with the resources that you need to take care of our veterans.

It is not a very glamorous one, but I think it is the key to getting the VA into this century.

Without providers receiving proper training, the program will fail to meet the goals of this modernization.

Legislative changes are needed to resolve barriers to controlled substance prescribing, including for substance abuse treatment.

I think I can speak for all of us.

It is such a huge, huge issue, a big expense, and just, you know, a gigantic project that is so, so very important.

The MISSION Act has increased what we call 'reliance on us.' So, more vets are getting more services from us.

Members of the subcommittee remain committed to providing VA with the resources needed to care for our veterans.

We are seeking to manage both a strong pandemic response, which the CARES Act allows us to do, and then ARP really allows us to sustain that response.

We have a particularly soft economy right now, and historically what we know in soft economies is that vets who were reliant on employer-provided care, until now, are relying on their care for us.

The CARES Act and the American Rescue Plan provided VA with $37 billion to respond to the pandemic.

The budget request of $271 billion in fiscal year 2022 for the Department of Veterans Affairs... represents a 10.4 percent increase over fiscal year 2021 enacted levels.

I have to say that, overall, VA performed admirably throughout the crisis, and deserves praise and recognition for that.

However, continued growth of 8, 9 and 10 percent gets really difficult, and probably is unsustainable.

In many instances, a greater degree of supply chain coordination through AMAs will be utilized to procure the cattle for these plants.

I think an honest answer is economists have not quantified those costs very well yet.

The U.S. cattle industry has a storied history. It is the backbone of many rural economies.

When any one segment of this industry experiences an unexpected event, it ripples through the entire supply chain.