Pat Roberts: “I appreciate the committee's commitment to oversight of our Federal investment in the electronic record system and…”

We are in a dire fix. We are trying to write a farm bill here, and it is with a backdrop of severe budget limitations.

We have seen Mexico turn to Argentina to purchase wheat and Brazil for corn.

I am deeply concerned about the impact that today's retaliatory tariffs are having on U.S. agricultural products.

But short-term, for goodness' sake, do not, in this business of playing your cards of trying to get a better deal for the United States or a better trade situation, do not do so at the expense of American agriculture, which is going…