Pat Roberts: “I think it is very important to pass legislation. I think that is probably why we are created, the House, the Senate.”

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

What agricultural producers need right now is certainty and predictability.

These very important missions will be even better served with the necessary key leadership in place.

Ms. Courtney Dunbar Jones, I think your statement was mercifully short, and extremely poignant, and extremely to the point.