Bobby Rush: “The current standard of 75 parts per billion is not adequate to protect the public health.”

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

I am absolutely committed to the idea, and the potential, of trying to create a unity of will, a unity of spirit, and a unity of understanding, in terms of the whole cooperative sector of our society.

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.

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…