Our faculty conducted about $140 million in agriculture research this past year benefitting Florida's crops, livestock, forestry, fisheries, and natural resource systems.

Florida agriculture has a $148 billion economic impact, second only to tourism in the State of Florida.

I appreciate the work you do. Being a recipient of food stamps a long, long, long time ago, I understand the importance of that and I appreciate the outreach that you guys do.

This 'zero-for-zero' resolution explicitly calls for the U.S. to surrender its sugar policy when other major producers have done the same.

To weaken or surrender sugar policy without any foreign concessions... would amount to foolish unilateral disarmament.

I look forward to those debates.

let's define the region. Let's define what the norms are.

it was peaceful in nature, non-aggressive, and non-encroaching on other nations whereas what we are seeing with the Government of China has expanded its reach.

We need to come together on an agreement.

I think it is time that we come to the table and get clarification on this so that we can make policies and get people in agreement on that.

Thank you, gentlemen, for being here. Just kind of one last comment, because, again, what I hope to get out of this is to get enough information that we can help direct some of the foreign policies.