Do you see any dangers? Because this is a pretty large differentiation between the results and activities.

I want all Americans to know that we on the Agriculture Committee condemn all bigotry, including race-motivated threats and acts of violence.

Thank you. And, Ambassador Tom, you note in your testimony that intellectual property theft is one of the primary threats posed by China.

We have beds of hunger. Our children, our veterans, people going hungry, needing food.

This would have drastic impacts on American agricultural production, it would increase costs for consumers, and would almost certainly lead to devastating retaliatory tariffs placed on the U.S. agriculture exports.

I truly believe that food is now a national security issue.

Food makes the Agriculture Committee the most powerful Committee up here in Congress because you can do without a lot of things, but the one thing we cannot do without is food.

We need a thorough and policy-heavy conversation so that we can help the American farmers and our agricultural system navigate this difficult, challenging, and somewhat thorny issue.

American farmers need large markets to export their products, and when those markets are lost, who does it harm? Our farmers, and then the American people.

The world is watching us today on this very strategic national security issue.

the agency hasn't been reauthorized for now 16 years.

we have to reauthorize the agency to ensure that the public, the investing public, that our international partners understand that this Committee and this Congress takes the derivatives markets and the U.S.'s supremacy in derivatives…

you are still suffering from the lack of appropriations.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And keep doing your excellent work.

Let me ask you, do you see some dangers here? ... they are all not saying good things about AI unless we are careful.

we remain committed to making sure that we do more to get you all reauthorized.

we said, no way we are going to let that happen.

I have been in touch with our friends at CME and ICE clearinghouses, and they are very much concerned about this issue.

I was out visiting a farm in Caroline County, and a farmer said he has 1,000 acres of cereal rye.

I am proud that we were able to invest in conservation programs at USDA through the Inflation Reduction Act.

The failure to have a farm bill creates uncertainty, and that uncertainty makes it very difficult for producers to make decisions about their operations.

Now, nearly a year later, we are still working towards our shared goal of passing a strong, effective, and bipartisan farm bill.

Virginia has already received nearly $8 million in funding that goes directly to farmers across our Commonwealth.

I come from Virginia where our number one private industry is agriculture.

A farm bill is more than that. It is a rural development bill. It is a conservation bill. It is a nutrition bill. It is a research bill. It is a trade bill. It is a risk management bill.