"I agree strongly with the view that other people have expressed today, that one-size-fits-all approaches, when it comes to American agriculture, does not make a lot of sense."
"Senator Marshall and I introduced a bill just earlier today."
"The rollout for that has been very slow and very unclear."
"I would like to see an authentic and deep, committed investment into young, beginning, small, traditional, Indigenous, land-based farmers of color by the USDA."
"It is critically important that we have these conservation programs and that we make sure they work."
"I think answering that question is going to be so vital for the next generation of Americans and the generations coming after that."
"They deserve conservation programs at USDA as imaginative as they are, as ambitious as the problems they seek to solve."
"USDA has never fully implemented many of these provisions."
"What I saw when the Child Tax Credit went away, the Enhanced Child Tax Credit went away, was lines at food pantries just, you know, go up like this, skyrocket like this."
"From my point of view, you know, we are living in the richest country in the world, and our level of childhood poverty is criminal."
"That makes no sense to me, when we have a solution for the childhood poverty that we are facing."