I know you are familiar with the droughts that we are facing in Colorado and Kansas, and as you noted in your testimony the last farm bill had multiple provisions to help producers, and water managers, to cope with water scarcity.

Today our farmers and ranchers are not dealing with the Dust Bowl, but they are facing, in my part of the country, a 1,200-year drought.

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

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

One of the great things about this Committee is that it is not a very partisan Committee.

They deserve conservation programs at USDA as imaginative as they are, as ambitious as the problems they seek to solve.

they're still committed to giving billionaires a free pass to cheat on their taxes.

It is really aggravating and irritating that this happened during the middle of tax filing season.

It's always the same pattern every time this proposal comes up.

I am hoping that we can--and that the administration can--put a name before this committee soon.

It is really aggravating and irritating that this happened during the middle of tax filing season.