Tina Smith

We have got to find some way to make sure that we can draw young people back to this industry.

Our working lands programs are oversubscribed.

We need to protect our small farmers, our large farmers, and every farmer in between.

We need to make sure that we are developing markets and that we are developing a marketplace that creates that future for beginning farmers.

Thank you so much, Senator Hyde-Smith.

We have got to find some way to make sure that we can draw young people back to this industry.

If you do not have a safe, affordable place to live, nothing else in your life works, not your job, or your education, or your health.

I would also like to thank Senator Rounds for his partnership on the Rural Housing Reform legislation that we announced this morning.

Thank you so much to you and your staff for working together with us on today's hearing.

Small towns and rural places are creative, entrepreneurial, diverse, and wonderful places to live and to work and to raise a family.

We have a serious shortage of housing in this country, especially in rural communities.

Everybody has been saying today that everything is local, and one size does not fit all, and those FSA offices need to support that.

The biggest challenge young people have getting into agriculture is availability of land and availability of credit.

I have really enjoyed this conversation and hearing your very substantive responses to all of our questions.

we are going to be talking about the bill that I have been working on with Senator Rounds to modernize and improve the Rural Housing Service

I have really enjoyed this conversation and hearing your very substantive responses to all of our questions.

we are going to be talking about the bill that I have been working on with Senator Rounds to modernize and improve the Rural Housing Service

I think that we have a supply problem.

we are going to be talking about the bill that I have been working on with Senator Rounds to modernize and improve the Rural Housing Service.

I rise today in strong opposition to the resolution before us today. This resolution would overturn the VA's rule protecting veterans' access to abortion counseling and care in cases of rape, incest, or when the life of a woman or her…

I know that Minnesota tribes really appreciated having you there.

I know that Minnesota tribes really appreciated having you there.

The struggles that tribal nations face, especially smaller ones, trying to figure out how to engage with this octopus of the Federal Government.

I really--I got to wonder, how does the President expect family farms to survive with all of the things that we are burdening them with?

Homelessness is a significant challenge in our country, and getting worse.