David Scott: “This is a very timely hearing. The Nation's attention is riveted on this whole issue of monitoring and surveillance.”

It is my hope that our farm bill will take all of this into consideration.

She brought it up in 2 weeks in July, which is the height now of appropriations season.

My feeling is Speaker Johnson will not bring this bill to the floor for a vote because it was not written as a serious bill.

This delay hurts the American people, especially in rural communities where our farms are, and it injects uncertainty into our nation's economies.