Jake LaTurner

I was heartbroken by what happened in Uvalde and in Buffalo... willing to come to the table to try to find meaningful solutions.

On behalf of the farmers, ranchers, and agriculture producers in the First District of Kansas, thank you for participating in today's full Committee hearing regarding beef markets.

Unfortunately, Democrats authorized trillions of dollars of wasteful deficit spending that, ultimately, had little to do with pandemic recovery.

My working class constituents are the ones who are hurt the most.

Countless economic experts on both sides of the aisle warned that this reckless spending would have a significant inflationary impact.

The truth is that the American Rescue Plan Act and its flawed disbursement formula turned into a $350 billion slush fund.

In my part of the country, we greatly rely on broadband to connect our communities to one another and to the rest of the world.

I represent the First District of Kansas, 63 primarily rural counties in the western central part of the state.

We need to really discuss is the safety net the appropriate height off the ground so to speak moving into this farm bill?

Let's use a scalpel and not a sledgehammer. Let's make some tweaks, let's work to improve it, but let's acknowledge that what we have is a good program.

Crop insurance will be my highest priority and I think should be the highest priority so far as production agriculture goes for this Committee.

I would challenge that conclusion. For us, investigation is prevention.

Customs and Border Patrol has encountered 208,887 migrants on the Southwest Border this past August.

These proposals fail to take into account the progress that we have already made in moving toward a cleaner energy economy.

The policies proposed in the American Jobs Plan and the Green New Deal are hardly balanced and thoughtful.

Once again, this Committee had a real opportunity to hold a bipartisan oversight hearing to get to the bottom of the events of January 6.

I believe it is critical for Congress to hold companies like Purdue Pharma responsible for any role they may have had in the misuse and abuse of prescription opioids.

Democrats have contested the Presidential election results of every single Republican victory for the last 20 years.

Many in the Democratic Party are politicizing this issue and making gross attempts to link the concerns of tens of millions of Americans about the last election and the peaceful actions of their elected representatives to the violent acts…

The way this hearing is being conducted today is disappointing, to say the least.

I want to thank you for holding this critical hearing to help the committee explore the causes of the unacceptable high maternal mortality rate.

President Biden imposed a so-called deportation moratorium. He ceased unilaterally construction of the Southern Border wall, terminated the migrant protection protocols.

I want to focus primarily on ransomware and specifically on its impact on small and medium-size businesses.

I hope we can work together and make sure that we are working on behalf of the American people.