Pat Roberts: “In your experience, have Federal incentives or leverage been effective in the past?”

I call this hearing of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee to order.

What agricultural producers need right now is certainty and predictability.

All of us look forward to working with each of you in a bipartisan way, both sides of the aisle.

I thank my colleagues for joining me in reviewing the nominations of the individuals before us.