Political Quotes

Mr. Chair, I rise in very strong opposition to this amendment. Cutting funding for the National Institute of Food and Agriculture by an additional 17 percent is penny-wise and pound-foolish. The bill already guts funding for USDA, but the…

Mr. Chair, I do rise in opposition to this misguided amendment. The amendment would eliminate research funding into novel approaches to keeping livestock healthy. Livestock disease costs hundreds of millions of dollars per year. Producers…

Mr. Chairman, I think it is interesting to hear the discussion about a $2 trillion deficit when that was created by the tax cut that they passed in the last administration--$2 trillion because they cut the taxes and reduced the amount of…

Mr. Chair, I oppose this amendment. This amendment would prohibit funding for carrying out the recommendations of the interim report of the USDA Equity Commission. The Equity Commission has made 32 initial recommendations on a range of…