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Congress has also provided significant disaster funding to provide additional support for producers hit by extreme weather, funding for which was requested by the Biden Administration last September.

I hear through pretty much every ag meeting I have how important the Federal crop insurance program is to help farmers manage their risk.

Risk mitigation is a huge factor for all farmers of all sizes, scales, and complexities.

Putin's unjustified and unprovoked war in Ukraine.

The President's budget request for 2023 included $300 million for rural electric co-ops so they can transition from their infrastructure of fossil fuels to more renewables.

What specific policies would you recommend to combat the historic and current discrimination too often faced by Black and Brown farmers in your respective industries?

Those waivers, we like to characterize it as giving out candy on Halloween. They were just given out so indiscriminately.

Obviously, whether we are Democrats or Republicans, we can all agree that national security is critical to all of us.

I think it is shortsighted. Intentionally undercutting demand for domestically produced biofuels would pull the rug out from beneath our corn and our soybean growers.

An unplanned closure of Lock 25 alone would result in about $1.5 billion lost to our economy.

The American Families Plan, it is just so great to see that President Biden is requesting doubling the yearly TEACH Grant award from $4,000 to $8,000.

How could investment in clean energy jobs help bolster our economy, including in rural America and the Midwest?

The bill that I introduced with a group of bipartisan colleagues... would provide funding for CO2 transport infrastructure and storage.

I believe also that we need to do more to help dislocated workers to find good, quality jobs.

I cannot tell you the level of excitement that I feel when President Biden announces a $153,000,000 request for the program this fiscal year.

It is clear to me, especially after this visit by the First Lady, that community college can play an incredible role in providing nursing--people coming out of the nursing programs, dental programs, dental hygienists and other degrees.

To build a strong foundation for a successful economy, our nation requires a significant investment.

I have a deep appreciation for your critical mission, and the essential work that you are doing.

I really appreciate what you said in your testimony where you stated the Corps must stop treating the environment as a separate business line.

Anytime we can create union jobs, we are all in.

The SCALE Act is estimated to directly and indirectly create nearly 13,000 jobs per year over each of the next 5 years.

It would make critical infrastructure investments in carbon capture and storage so we can have net zero emission--an economy driven by that.

I think we can all agree that investment in the Nation's defense is absolutely critical to deterring future conflicts.

A Boy Scout named Noah from Peoria, Illinois, wrote to me. He heard his city council talking about layoffs in the wake of COVID-19. Noah understands that we have failed towns like his. He wrote: ``Many people are going to lose their jobs…