"I think that any radical activist pushing an agenda like this that have never stepped foot on their family farms should come visit a farm in Iowa."
"I look forward to continuing to work with the Committee to build consensus around a durable and bipartisan solution to protect our family farmers from damaging and arbitrary mandates like Prop 12."
"Congress can support American farmers in their work to feed and fuel the world."
"The Prop 12 ruling, I would say, it--was a poor opinion, in my opinion, simply my opinion, allowing a single state to impose rules on the rest of America."
"This, to me, is a direct attack, direct attack on our producers."
"One of my top concerns with the crisis we are seeing at our southern border is that we know that individuals on the terror watch list, sex offenders, some of these transnational gang members, drug tra..."
"I think it is a misdirection of priorities to send that much future taxpayer funding, again, to what we consider a manmade crisis at the southern border."
"I would rather see those resources go toward stopping forced labor materials from coming into our country, interdicting those drugs."
"I am extremely concerned about the number of known terrorists and criminals who have come across our southern border as a result of the weakness."
"So we can't let this happen, right? I mean, this is a vulnerability for the safety and security of our country, is it not?"
"I think that when you look at that added stress and anxiety-inducing situation, I think that there may be room for improvement there."
"I guess my biggest question is, when you look at 19,000 staff Border Patrol agents, which is what we have right now, funded for 19,800, 800 of those positions are currently open."