This isn't difficult. To get the program back on track, it simply requires that our solutions be targeted, timely, and tied to COVID.

We have an opportunity today to be on the cutting edge of technologies and the ability to provide affordable food to more households that need it.

I appreciate the Chairman's commitment to hold this hearing with the Secretary following the August work period.

I believe these innovative production methods are meant to supplement production agriculture, not supplant.

A hearing to review the state of the rural economy and our agriculture industry is long overdue.

I hope our Committee will move to hold hearings that explore the issues facing production agriculture.

We have the Child Tax Credit going out there to these people, millions of whom don't have a bank account.

We passed a bill that requires monthly payments for the job tax credit to 48 million families.

This is a very timely and very important hearing. I have been on this committee during my entire 19 years in Congress, and I have been working on this issue to find a solution.

I am so proud of you. You and I served together in the House for many years, and you are doing a wonderful job as Secretary.

It was very important. This was her first chance to come before this committee, and she deserves to have this opportunity on her own.

I agree that a return to a more stable inflation rate would indeed be advantageous to our economy.

Unfortunately, wage increases will not keep pace, creating real hardship for people on fixed incomes, retirees, and many of our low-income households.

The impact this has on a young borrower's credit score can--and does--have long-term consequences.

Perhaps the most paralyzing issue in this that we can address quickly, coming up with some answers, deals with student loan debt.

This is a very serious racial issue.

Our credit reporting agencies are not perfect, but American consumers stand to benefit far more if we improve our existing, competitive, private-sector system, than if we centralize the financial data at a government bureaucracy.

Their actions in the markets this past week are indicative of who they are as a bad trade partner.

The fundamental purpose of this hearing is to hear from our African American college presidents on the work that we are doing in Congress.

I want to thank you for the investments to the 1890s in the 2018 Farm Bill and in the American Recovery Plan.

I want to thank all of you for the investments to the 1890s in the 2018 Farm Bill and in the American Recovery Act.

And now we must go forward and establish this 1890s Land-Grant Colleges and Universities Scholarship Program permanently...

I just want to say thank you, we move forward. Nothing is easy. We have a challenge to move ahead...

Without these 1890 land-grant colleges and universities, it is very doubtful that we, as African American Members of Congress, would be here.

I firmly believe that our institutions, our 1890 institutions, provide some of the best bang for the buck for the Federal dollar.