Jackie Walorski

Here we sit 2 years later, digging deeper into some of the root causes to ensure that no veteran ever dies again waiting for care.

In 2014, news reports uncovering gross mismanagement and schedule manipulation at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Phoenix shook us all to the core.

The H-2A process, which is for legal labor, is broken.

The overwhelming regulatory stuff that is coming out, particularly from the EPA.

Agriculture is bipartisan, and we have to figure a way to work together.

Our ability to provide life enhancing educational opportunities hinges on our Federal, state, and local partnerships.

There are two kinds of conservation going on in America: the hopefuls and the hatefuls. And we have to find a way to empower the hopefuls.

And, frankly, when I ask my members of the Family Farm Alliance, or my neighbors that don't use it, they just feel like the system is just so disjointed from their lives and so much paperwork.

The fastest growing category of farmers in America is 70 and above.

The answers are going to be done at the local level.

I thank you for your support of USDA, NIFA, the land-grant university system, and Cooperative Extension.

Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today.

For them, an increase in the price of food means foregoing other needed purchases.

One factor that tends to be overlooked is the role of effective farm policies in keeping prices affordable and stable for consumers.

Effective farm policies keep prices affordable and stable for consumers.

The United States has the safest, most abundant, most affordable food supply in the world.

I want our veterans to actually find a seamless, smooth transition, and I want this to work.

I think the American people look at this, as I do, as a very dangerous precedent; that we are looking at potentially bringing these terrorists with blood on their hands that have already killed Americans back to this soil, which I think is…

Are you looking at either rolling that back or letting us know what reality means as to why USDA is looking at ownership?

May be making a profit? May be providing food to rural areas? This isn't corporate this is small business.

Today's EPA has become a punitive revenue generator for big government.

I just wanted to say how thrilled I am to hear that you have made the transition to the concept of running on principle and not just necessarily on the bureaucratic rules in the VA.

I sincerely thank Chairwoman Walorski, Ranking Member McGovern, and Members of the Subcommittee for providing me with the opportunity to share our lessons learned from the field.

The effort to incentivize more nutritious purchases by low-income families began organically, typically involving private-sector donations or local funding.

Government programs like SNAP, or the Woman, Infants, and Children, or WIC, aren't going to end the obesity epidemic alone.