Bobby Rush: “Circumstances have changed significantly since the SPR was established back in the 1970s.”

I urge the members of this Select Committee to co-sponsor this important legislation and hope to see it passed before the end of the 117th Congress.

I am extremely interested in member cooperatives, and I am looking forward to ways to expand ag co-ops to urban areas.

We on the Agriculture Committee have a special and unique mission to try to help solve the problem of Black farmers in our nation.

During the hearing, I asked what I thought was a straightforward question: what policies would our expert panel made up of commodity group witnesses recommend to rectify both the historic and current discrimination too often faced by…