Kat Cammack: “I rise today after years of fighting for this to say, yes, we are finally getting the farm bill done. The Farm, Food…”

“I rise today after years of fighting for this to say, yes, we are finally getting the farm bill done. The Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026 is not just a farm bill. It is a lifeline. For the farmers and ranchers in Florida, the men and women who wake up before the Sun, who work through the hurricanes, the freezes, and the disease outbreaks, who have been delivering for this country while Washington didn't deliver for them, this moment is long overdue. Now, let me be direct about something. Our farmers did not create the chaos of rising input costs. They did not ask for the hurricanes that wiped out their groves and flooded their fields. They did not cause the freezes that killed their crops or the citrus greening that has devastated an entire industry. They absorbed it all, quietly and stubbornly, because that is what our producers do. For too long, Washington's response has been paperwork delays and disaster programs that did not meet the moment, did not reflect reality. Mr. Chair, we all know that food security is national security. Every acre that is abandoned, every grove that is not replanted, every farmer who walks away, that is a strategic loss. Our adversaries understand this, even when people in this very Chamber choose to forget it. A nation that cannot feed itself is a nation that is not secure and a nation that can be controlled from abroad. Americans should never have to rely on foreign food.”