I think you are the first Administrator from the EPA that has been here since 2016, so I applaud you for doing this.

Are you really taking serious measures of what this is going to look like when you have to depopulate large animals?

Thank you, Chairman Mann, for holding this hearing. You look good in that chairmanship.

In 2019, the United States became energy independent for the first time in 62 years. However, on his first day in office, President Biden destroyed American energy production by killing the Keystone XL pipeline and outsourcing our energy…

So our farmers in the Midwest, in Iowa, are every day looking at better ways to create soil health from cover crops and no-till to rotations to terraces.

They do an amazing job. They are the breadbasket to the world.

But there is always research that is needed, and that is why I love my land-grant institution so much, Iowa State University that does a tremendous job.

My district, Iowa's Fourth District, is either number one or two in the nation when it comes to corn and soybean production.

I agree 100 percent, Dr. Larson, and thank you for those comments.

Thank you, Chairman Scott and Ranking Member Thompson, for holding this hearing today.

I thank Ranking Member Smith for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I would just quickly note that I am highly offended by the use of the foul language by my Democrat colleague. That is completely unacceptable. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong…

I thank Ranking Member Lucas for yielding and for his leadership on the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Madam Speaker, H.R. 7361, the National Weather Service Communications Improvement Act, is a bill that was born from a…

Do you think they are satisfied? No.

The only way you fight inflation is increasing your interest rates.

It is scary because I think it could be a 5.

Don't we understand the train wreck that is already happening?

This is real. This is what Americans are facing.

This isn't Randy Feenstra. This is an expert.

Here you have the big four packers that control the large packer capacity, up to maybe 80, 85 percent.

I will contest that there is a control on the markets through line speeds and the amount being slaughtered that can manipulate the markets.

If some packers are allowed to not participate in the cash markets, would they not be able to manipulate the regional supply of cattle by simply shifting their captive supply from one region to the next?

this government and this Administration are doing more to harm our producers and by extension the industry

Fairness and transparency creates a sustainable agriculture supply chain, which is critical to our producers.

It is clear that the cattle market is insufficient because there is no one that has access to the same information.

I am a supporter of my Senate colleagues, Senator Grassley and Senator Fischer's Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act (S. 4030), and I intend to lead this bill with Congresswoman Axne to get it to the House Floor.