Raphael Warnock
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Raphael Gamaliel Warnock is an American pastor and politician currently serving as the junior United States senator from Georgia since January 20, 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, Warnock is the first African American to represent Georgia in the U.S. Senate. He previously served as the senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, a position that has deep historical significance in the civil rights movement. Warnock's legislative focus includes issues such as voting rights, healthcare, and economic justice.
We need to give our growers the tools in order to manage the actual risks that they are facing, which has implications not only for them but for our economy.
Georgia is known as the Peach State, but climate change is threatening to put our State fruit at serious risk.
Thank you. I am out of time, but I look forward to exploring ways we can make these kinds of technical changes in the farm bill that will improve the prospects of growers and our economy.
We need to give our growers the tools in order to manage the actual risks that they are facing, which has implications not only for them but for our economy.
So a kind of laser focus on the goal so as not to create consequences that cascade beyond what you are trying to do.
We have to carefully consider innocent families and children and those without power when we use these tools, very, very powerful tools.