Andy Harris

Agriculture should never be partisan. It should be about a very important economy in our country to that.

It is expression of the failure of Congress, and that is a shame because you could have made the argument.

I think it is a tremendous straw man

The President merely followed the statute

The President's budget is dead on arrival in Congress

Our rural communities really do need the economic boost from having a government agency.

I do not understand why either of these agencies cannot relocate.

In the next few days, we are going to be asked to take another step on our journey to securing our border. The Congress has to take this very seriously because we have tens of thousands of people dying every year from drug overdoses with a…

Thank you very much.

If a state enacts a higher minimum wage, why shouldn't it assume more responsibility for policing that minimum wage?

Clearly, education is something we have to get right, and I am not sure we are getting it right in the United States right now.

Do you think a good start might be to take the other 1,100 felons who actually tried to get a gun, lied on the form, committed perjury, committed a Federal crime, do you think we ought to start prosecuting some of those people?

I think incarcerating someone who has committed a gun crime is a good thing.

Our policy should be actually to discourage as much as we can unaccompanied children coming to our border by whatever means necessary in order to keep them united with their families that they are leaving.

I just find it interesting that you come and testify on children's--you know, the benefit of children, and here you are, you know, with an agency that actually opposes U.S. efforts to stop Palestinians from paying their terrorists who kill…

My reading of the bill is not furloughed employees. It is anyone affected. It has a very broad definition. Without putting any guardrails on it, one could argue that every American was probably affected in some way. Is that true? Is my…

But if you could just shed some light. Why is it, you think, that we have so many more people dependent upon the SNAP program than we did 15 years ago?

So we are not telling them you can't have fresh fruit and vegetables.

I mean, look, we want to help people when they are in need, but we have returned to full employment, or what we look at full employment.

I am going to ask--well, first, I want to thank the Department for, you know, the EQIP Program, the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program, important in the State of Maryland.

I mean, you know, the farmers in my district, they are happy that finally we are going to have a program in place that says that when their tax dollars go to pay for supplemental nutrition, which they all want it to go to, that actually we…

Thank you all for enforcing the law, and in the instance of seizing dangerous drugs like fentanyl, finding where they are coming from, saving potentially thousands of American lives.

That is the potential for trauma.

But we have to trust our law enforcement officers and support them when they enforce the law.

So I personally feel that we not only need the $1.6 billion in that budget, we need far more to do it, including a wall.