Pat Roberts

Well, let me just close by saying that I agree with the President, I agree with everybody who has said, all of the witnesses, that long-term--and it is going to have to be a long-term policy with regards to China--you are going to have to…

China should respond to the findings and the action of the section 301 investigation by undertaking the necessary economic and policy reforms.

We are dry. We are having a drought.

I continue to hear in farm country the dire need to expand and explore new markets.

China's behavior has been undermining the global trading system and the WTO for years, using its protected market to force technology transfers.

We even have in eastern Colorado and western Kansas a hotline for people who are considering suicide.

I strongly agree with USTR's assessment that we have significant problems related to intellectual property and other market access-related issues with China.

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.

Show me a nation that cannot feed itself, and I'll show you a nation in chaos.

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

Over the past year, President Trump, as we've seen it, has broken promise after promise to our workers and made it easier for corporations to put workers' lives and safety at risk.

Unfortunately, the Trump Administration is taking the National Labor Relations Board in the wrong direction.

It is the policy of the United States to encourage collective bargaining.

I hope that we can work together to implement many of the common-sense reforms we've been debating for so long.

I voiced my opposition to the inclusion of this provision in the budget agreement on the Senate floor last week.

I am happy to see that the President's budget stresses the importance of working together to fight this epidemic.

I want to talk for just a moment about applicant burden reduction.

I can speak for virtually every member of the Senate Agriculture Committee in our eagerness to working with you.

I want to talk just a moment about electronic submissions.

Dr. Solomon, I want to thank you for the work that you do.

I want to thank this Committee, both the ranking Member and our distinguished Chairman, for focusing on this issue.

The foreign animal disease threats could really devastate public health.

One of our witnesses was General Richard Myers, four-star, President of Kansas State University, home of the now under construction National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility.

He suggested reasons why this is surprising.