Michael Bennet: “I do not dare gavel you down.”

By making these programs more accessible to smaller operations, we can help producers adopt soil health practices, strengthen local food systems, and protect our environment.

If you are interested in, and I’m sure everybody here is, in creating a set of incentives that actually will lead to better results, that will allow us to attack fraud and abuse and waste in these systems, that is not the system that we…

Not only does withholding pay irreparably harm some of the N.P.S.’s most vulnerable staff at a time of immense difficulty and uncertainty, it discourages future applicants and further strains the N.P.S.’s ability to recruit the skilled…

I will continue to push for necessary guardrails, critical reforms, and work towards preventing the opening of this facility.