Congress can support American farmers in their work to feed and fuel the world.

I think that any radical activist pushing an agenda like this that have never stepped foot on their family farms should come visit a farm in Iowa.

I look forward to continuing to work with the Committee to build consensus around a durable and bipartisan solution to protect our family farmers from damaging and arbitrary mandates like Prop 12.

I thank the gentleman from Arkansas for yielding me the time to speak on this very important piece of legislation today and for his leadership on this bill. It is tough to craft a bill that funds the priorities of the American people in a…

I think this really hits the mark in investing in the priorities I continue to hear about from my constituents. It is why I am proud to support it.

I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no'' on rollcall No. 276. PERSONAL EXPLANATION

This, to me, is a direct attack, direct attack on our producers.

The Prop 12 ruling, I would say, it--was a poor opinion, in my opinion, simply my opinion, allowing a single state to impose rules on the rest of America.

I am extremely concerned about the number of known terrorists and criminals who have come across our southern border as a result of the weakness.

So we can't let this happen, right? I mean, this is a vulnerability for the safety and security of our country, is it not?

One of my top concerns with the crisis we are seeing at our southern border is that we know that individuals on the terror watch list, sex offenders, some of these transnational gang members, drug traffickers, human traffickers, the list…

I would rather see those resources go toward stopping forced labor materials from coming into our country, interdicting those drugs.

I think it is a misdirection of priorities to send that much future taxpayer funding, again, to what we consider a manmade crisis at the southern border.

Is this what CBP is telling you they need to be able to secure the border and provide that operational security?

I think one of the biggest concerns is a clear lack of communication between CBP and ICE.

I see this as a complete failure. What will it take?

We have to control this mass flow of illicit drugs through our systems, and I think some of it is on increasing penalties for traffickers in our homeland.

I think consistency is the biggest challenge here, right. We want to make sure that every veteran can count on the same process, no matter what airport they are flying through.

Your budget request, I believe you have $77.4 million for border management staffing.

So when you are coming to us and saying you need more Border Patrol agents, the policies of this administration have truly affected retention for CBP.

I think it would certainly help if we didn't have defund-the-police rhetoric around the country as well, because law enforcement is struggling.

I think Iowans and Americans deserve accountability here for their tax dollars and for their numbers.

I think that when you look at that added stress and anxiety-inducing situation, I think that there may be room for improvement there.

I am very concerned when you say you are addressing the cartels in unprecedented ways.

the American people understand that border security is national security, and this is a failure.