In Iowa, agriculture contributes to over $9 billion annually to our State GDP and accounts for most of our top exports.

I greatly, greatly appreciate you guys taking the time and really look forward to everything we are going to hear today.

In my congressional district, nearly 14,000 people are farmers or work in agribusiness.

we have to do more to bring more folks back home.

While I don't serve on this committee, I am proud to be a voice for Iowa's working families and am committed to making sure that they have a seat at the table on the issues affecting their lives.

I encourage this Committee to continue its important work to hold drug companies accountable and bring down costs for patients through common-sense, bipartisan legislation.

No one should have to choose between retiring in dignity--or keeping their home--and affording the medicine that allows them to live a full life.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

I am very excited about our hearing today on ways we can support new and beginning farmers.

our way of life continues to be at risk given what we have seen in the past 20 years

the increasing cost of production, low commodity prices, again, exacerbated by this ongoing trade war coupled with unpredictable weather patterns... have made it difficult for farmers