Tom Vilsack: “I am supportive of it, but let me just simply say I think you need to go beyond that.”

It would likely mean a loss of 40,000 rental assistance units in rural America.

The railroads should not be able to continue to operate without buffer for unexpected demand, make historic profits, and engage in enormous stock buybacks, all while providing subpar service to agricultural shippers and disregarding safety.

It’s very direct, and I think it speaks significantly and centrally to the challenges that many Iowa farmers face today.

What I am happy to do is work with the Members of this Committee and others to pass the Farm Workforce Modernization Act (117th Congress--H.R. 1603), which could have solved this problem, Congressman.