Tina Smith: “It assures our American people that they are going to have their pantries available, food to fill their pantries, at a…”

But many rural hospitals face increasingly dire financial strain and workforce shortages, forcing them to cut services or even close down altogether.

I think too often in the Senate, we talk to one another through other people.

This is the way it goes, Americans have really busy complicated lives, they're trying to figure out how to pay rent and buy groceries, but what they saw, I don't think they're going to forget it.

Because of Trump's tariffs, the Chinese market for soybeans has been decimated. Trump tariffs have completely ruined that market. And as I think you said, Senator Merkley, these export markets for American agricultural products--it is not…