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…

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.

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 gentlewoman's amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.

Who in the world knows what ``woke'' means? I think all of us should be awake to the dangers of overreach in this appropriations bill. This amendment would prohibit funds for courses, books, or study guides on 17 topics related to…

The USDA Equity Commission was set up in 2022 to address the historic inequities in implementation of the programs by the Department of Agriculture. The Department has a long and storied history of discrimination, as evidenced by the…

This bill, our funding bill, funds rural America. We, as Members of Congress, ought to be committed to ensuring that people who live in rural communities are not disadvantaged simply because of their rural ZIP Code. I urge us to defeat…

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 Virginia will be postponed. {time} 0220 Amendment No. 86 Offered by Mr. Massie The Acting…

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 revenue. Come…

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 lose…

This amendment should be defeated. It will cut funding for the Rural Business-Cooperative Service by an additional 44 percent. Agricultural cooperatives provide effective marketing and local supplies and services to their member-owners…

Setting aside whether this amendment is misplaced in the Agriculture appropriations bill, this amendment is simply bad policy. We are still fighting the lingering effects of a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic and attempts to cut funding for the…