Jim Costa: “This is another one of a series of Subcommittee hearings that we are holding to deal with our appropriate role in terms…”

Food is a national security issue.

But let's be frank about it. Russia today is a syndicate, I think, that's masquerading as a nuclear--a nuclear syndicate masquerading as a country with a mob boss called Putin.

I think that farmers, ranchers, dairymen and -women are critical in so many different ways, but they are also stewards of the environment.

I think that China is watching what we're doing in Ukraine just as Russia is trying to determine what is the resolve of the United States.