Sanford Bishop

George Washington Carver once said: How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong, because someday in your life you will…

We make our living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. John Lewis certainly made a life. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Alabama (Ms. Sewell).

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. From the ag appropriations, the bill provides: $10 billion for SNAP; $150 million for food banks; $3 billion for school food programs; $1.1 billion for WIC; $309 million for Rural Rental Assistance. In…

We share the goal of making sure that we continue to produce the highest quality, the safest, the most abundant, and the most economical food and fiber and fuel anywhere in the industrialized world.

Any budget has a statement of values and priorities, and it has been clear for three years now that the administration wants to dismantle some critical programs.

I continue to believe that many proposals in the budget are bad for our farmers, bad for our rural communities, bad for our vulnerable populations, and quite honestly, should be dead on arrival.

The administration has put forth a budget that appears to be grossly inadequate, as it has every year during its time in office.

We have tried everything, so I just want to say I agree with you, my good friend, Mr. Price.

I would really like to work with Mr. Price and my other colleagues, and with you.

Dr. Hahn, thank you for being here today. We appreciate you taking time out to share your knowledge.

This is a $60 billion market, but we don't actually know how many products are out there.

But we have funded 2,700 FTEs, but you are only utilizing 785 positions.

We have taken action against companies who have made false claims about CBD products--curing cancer, treating Alzheimer's.

People are frightened. They are not being well-served by this lack of accurate information.

I hope that you would reconsider if in fact the Inspector General's report yields statistically significant problems.

I thought that the information that you were giving was very important and critical, and so I extended my time.

I am concerned--and there is a great deal of concern about the territories being able to have the resources they need when they need it.

The block grant though has a cap on it. And if the need exceeds the block grant, they are out of luck.

Why would you not want to put these resources towards hiring new FSA staff, particularly since--for example, in Georgia our customers are saying that they don't have enough staff?

So we need to include that in whatever.

I would urge you, Mr. Secretary, to please, if, to the extent that you can, try to expedite these funds.

Timing is critical, and as we move later in the year, the scholarship fund not being delivered will impact the incoming class.

Both agencies have hemorrhaged hundreds of years of institutional knowledge.

It seems cumbersome to have to wait until a disaster occurs and for Congress to have to pass a special bill for Puerto Rico if that were already in place, the provisions for that.

Puerto Rico does not have legislative authority to operate a disaster nutrition program and as a result essential disaster funding didn't get to the survivors until six months after the hurricanes.