Mr. Chairman, it is not free. It is legal.

I want to say thank you, thank you, thank you, for being here.

Thank you to my Ranking Member, Senator Marshall, for his partnership.

I think answering that question is going to be so vital for the next generation of Americans and the generations coming after that.

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.

I am excited to have somebody on the Agriculture Committee who has got as much firsthand experience as you do.

Senator Marshall and I introduced a bill just earlier today--we can do two things at once.

It is a risky business, capital-intensive business, and if we are not in business then we are not producing food.

It is remarkable, I think, to have the kind of breadth of perspectives that we have had this morning.

I fought to give them another $20 billion in the Inflation Reduction Act.

The future of rural America depends on whether the next generation decides to continue their family farms and ranches.