Tim Walz

I think this is moving in a direction that many of us wanted to see.

I thank my good friend from New York. It is a phrase we sometimes throw around in here without a lot of authenticity behind it, but I can tell you, in this case, a gentleman who served this Nation three decades in uniform and has had a…

Risk management is critical.

I want to thank you, Dr. Outlaw, for that articulate statement on crop insurance.

Real farm incomes are at a 20+ year low. It doesn't look like a lot of relief is on the horizon.

We wrote that farm bill in a very good time for the bad times.

I understand why people are hesitant to speak out sometimes, but we need to cultivate those relationships and hope that not tomorrow, but longer-term, this will turn in the right direction.

This nation rejects torture in all forms, no matter what any private individual may express.

I do not have any basis for hope.

So you see a real impact, all right.

I appreciate his advocacy for our producers in the first district of Minnesota.

I am glad that Congressman Walz is here, and you mentioned about your trip to Tibet.

Yes, there is a generational difference, and the folks that I think we need to be most concerned about are those who have started farming in, let's say, the last 10 years or 5 years in particular where they started at a time of very high…

A lot of good food for thought helping us prepare as we go forward.

Candidly to you nearly 30 years of visiting and certainly subjective from my position, it felt worse to me than it ever has.

If we are producing energy in America, regardless of where it has come from, that is a good thing.

We should not be in the business of picking winners and losers, and we should make sure that these industries have the opportunity.

There is a perception issue both in what they are going to get and what they expect to get.

The strategic need for the F-35, I think everyone knows that.

Is it naive of me to think that after 25 years of that and the biennial reviews by the National Academy of Sciences, a meta-analysis of all the research that was out there, did we just do a wonderful job of picking the last two things they…

But I would suggest to my colleagues here, why were we so willing to give up to the executive branch the authority to make these decisions, and why we gave away our power with the expiration of the Agent Orange Act.

Last summer when the Agent Orange Act was coming to expire, 53 of us co-sponsored that and it ended with a whimper without even a floor vote.

I think we need to take more of the lead on this. I think we need to make sure, because I think as science moves along, the research possibilities are still out there, and I think we are shutting doors.

I thank the gentleman for yielding time. I rise in support of the SHARE Act and the Sportsmen's Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act. I thank my co-chair on the Sportsmen's Caucus, Mr. Wittman, for his work on this bill. Like so many…

I think our issue, especially with these toxic wound exposures in battle, it differs from cancer...