Cindy Axne: “I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is…”

Since 1980, roughly 17,000 cattle producers have gone out of business every year.

While Congress cannot protect cattle producers and their businesses from being shunned by packers for testifying, Members of this Committee certainly shouldn't facilitate or allow packers to intimidate witnesses prior to a hearing.

So farmers are definitely on the frontline of climate change.

At the very first hearing we held within the Committee in this Congress, we discussed the increased unpredictability and devastating effects that climate change poses.