Sanford Bishop

I certainly rise in opposition to this amendment. The amendment would reduce funding for the Foreign Agriculture Service, which reduces the services promoting United States agricultural exports, developing overseas markets, and increasing…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Pennsylvania will be postponed. Amendment No. 48 Offered by Mr. Nunn of Iowa The Acting…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Oklahoma will be postponed. Amendment No. 45 Offered by Mr. Perry The Acting CHAIR. It is…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Oklahoma will be postponed. The Acting CHAIR. The Chair understands that amendment No. 42…

These amendments just go to undermine the ability of USDA to do what it is supposed to do for the American people. This is another amendment that cuts funding, and if you keep cutting funding, you will totally make this agency unable to…

I claim the time in opposition to the amendment. The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Issa). The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.

This is a bad amendment. It is bad for the country. It is bad for the USDA. Mr. Chair, I urge defeat of this amendment, and I reserve the balance of my time.

I hope that the people who are watching tonight will take note of the fact that they don't have to take our word for it. The Congressional Budget Office has scored this bill, and they have scored the manager's amendment. The gentleman says…

Every time I hear Republicans talk, they are talking about the cost of everything going up. Assuming, which is not true, that the $6 billion is the same as the last year, they say over and over and over how much the cost of living has gone…

I don't think that it serves us to be starving people abroad. I think that it helps Americans for us to be feeding people all over the world.

But you have sufficient tools for the producers to really--do they have sufficient information upon which to make their decision on but which one of the programs to choose?

Thank you, Chairman Scott and Ranking Member Brown, for having this important hearing for us to get an update from our commodity stakeholders on their priorities for the 2023 Farm Bill.

Thank you for thinking of how that impacts our farmers to produce the food, the flowers, the fiber, and the fuel that we use every day.

We appreciate your consideration of the immense positive impact SNAP has on the lives of millions of Americans as well as its beneficial impact on the national economy and our nation's long-term financial sustainability.

You have promoted revival of the Robinson-Patman Act as a means of restoring competitiveness in independent grocers and pharmacies.

I have been hearing from my constituents numerous complaints about the practices of pharmacy benefit managers which they say drive up the prices of drugs.

Historically, we saw that, you know, when other companies were doubling down on protecting their national champions, the U.S. instead took a different route.

American jobs depend on American global competitiveness, and as I understand it, Sony dominates gaming.

The environmental, social, and governance data that is up for disclosure and up for discussion today, is that consistent--isn't that consistent with your mission to protect investors, to maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and…

Would you say that to do that would really be to fly in the face of common sense and the protection of the American people?

It just seems as if all of this is a big, big problem and a step backwards.

Our national security would appear to be impacted.

It would be devastating to the American people.

I was interested to know from your perspectives what you thought we needed to do so that, through the farm bill, we could help to reduce the market volatility of which we have been discussing all day.

This has been almost a 20 year process for me.