Pat Roberts: “It's important for the department to maintain a leadership role in the review process outlined in the coordinated…”

Unions and collective bargaining helped create in our country the middle class and helped millions of families become economically secure today.

I hope we do not stumble on it, and that is to somehow get back engaged with TPP.

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.

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…