Steve Womack: “I thank the gentlewoman for her amendment, and I rise in support. Plainly and simply, environmental policing is not…”

“I thank the gentlewoman for her amendment, and I rise in support. Plainly and simply, environmental policing is not within the SEC's scope. It is just not. I know this process that we have undergone this morning sounds a lot like we are ganging up on Gensler, and maybe we are, and for good reason. Scope 3 emissions are hard to quantify, requiring the shifting of information needed from outside partnering companies like family farmers. The information that would need to be reported to bigger companies the farmers rely on for business is overly burdensome. Farmers are American heroes. They don't need any more negative input factors on how they feed, clothe, and fuel this Nation. They already have enough to deal with--high inflation, markets, weather. Somebody has to stand up for the family farmer, and that is why I am proud to support my colleague from Minnesota's amendment here, and I encourage my colleagues to do the same. Mr. Chair, the farmer needs an advocate, and that is what we are doing.”