Lawmakers should address the projected trust fund shortfalls in a timely way in order to phase in necessary changes gradually and give workers and beneficiaries time to adjust to them.

I am going to start out with my favorite subject every time we have a farm bill up, on farm payment limitations.

It is my belief that the USDA's discretionary use of CCC undercuts this Committee farm bill process.

Only Congress has the power to approve treaties.

Let's actually do our job and have the Budget Committee mark up a budget resolution.

This administration has dramatically missed inflation for two years in a row.

I have been glad to see that Lena Santos Ferguson is finally gaining recognition for her work to desegregate the Daughters of the American Revolution. In 1980, Mrs. Ferguson was turned away when she tried to join DAR. She was discriminated…

the more Congress borrows and spends, the higher interest rates will have to go up, and ultimately, it's families and small businesses that will suffer the economic consequences.

Clearly, we aren't going to be able to tax our way out of the current fiscal mess.

I come to the floor today to commemorate Sunshine Week. Sunshine Week coincides each year with March 16, one of our Founding Fathers' birthdays: James Madison. Madison is widely known as the father of open government. The sunshine I am…

I'm going to start with Mr. Mangual. Last year, I held a field hearing in Iowa for the Drug Caucus that I co-chair with Chairman Whitehouse.

last Congress, I spoke of my strong opposition to the nomination of Eric Garcetti to be Ambassador to the Republic of India. I opposed the nomination due to the serious and credible allegations that he enabled sexual harassment and racism…

I intend to object to any unanimous consent request relating to the nomination of Joshua D. Jacobs, to be Under Secretary for Benefits at the Department of Veterans Affairs, PN195. Mr. Jacobs, if confirmed, would lead the Veterans Benefits…

Nobody believes that. People know about the trillions spent in spending binge of the last Congress, and the costly administrative actions.

today, I would like to extend best wishes to the former Senator from New York, James L. Buckley. One hundred years ago today, on the 9th of March, Jim was born the fourth of 10 children, just as the Roaring '20s were getting underway. As…

Needless to say things must change.

Adopting a budget was once considered an essential part of good governance. Now it's barely an afterthought.

Unfortunately, President Biden and Senate leadership are uninterested in getting back to regular order, or addressing our dire fiscal outlook.

The delayed process postpones--in other words when appropriators and authorizers can commence hearings to review agency spending.

This plan aims to permanently conserve 30 percent of our country's lands and waters by 2030.

All the while the Biden administration is taking action to take more American farmland out of production.

I think this hearing comes at a critical time because of Russia's influence on the world's supply of grain.

It is shocking that a commissioner would choose to resign rather than watch an agency's bipartisan tradition crumble in front of her eyes.

the rise of global e-commerce presents profound new challenges for the responsibility of governments to collect revenue and enforce safety and security.

I've hauled Big Pharma and PBM executives before the Finance Committee.