Tina Smith

We cannot react our way out of a disaster but we can sure plan our way around the next one.

I appreciate my colleagues' remarks today. You know, the issue that we are debating is whether or not retirement plans should be allowed to consider a company's environmental, social, and governance goals when they make investments. That…

Of course they are very interested in the conservation programs and are very interested in passing a bipartisan farm bill, which is so crucial.

I appreciate that. And I suspect that almost everybody on this Committee would agree that while we may--we certainly have, I think, a moral obligation to make sure that people can get the health care that they need.

I think it just reminds me of what an important responsibility we have through the work that we are doing to reauthorize this legislation, to not put clinics in the position of wasting time and energy and resources trying to plan for a…

Farmers and producers appreciate conservation programs. No one cares more about conservation than farmers.

It is a big deal that we have delivered additional support for these popular and oversubscribed conservation programs in the Inflation Reduction Act.

Of course they are very interested in the conservation programs and are very interested in passing a bipartisan farm bill, which is so crucial.

Farmers and producers appreciate conservation programs. No one cares more about conservation than farmers.

We cannot react our way out of a disaster but we can sure plan our way around the next one.

I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it stand adjourned until 10 a.m. on Tuesday, February 28; that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the Journal of proceedings be…

if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:30 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, February 28, 2023, at 10 a.m…

I understand that there is a bill at the desk, and I ask for its first reading. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will read the bill by title for the first time. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 532) to…

I ask unanimous consent for Annette Christie, Holly Hajare, Sindhu Nathan, and Mary Parrish, all fellows in my office, to have floor privileges for the rest of the current session of Congress. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it…

thank you to my colleague Senator Klobuchar for those very personal words about our shared friend, Senator Dave Durenberger. I rise today with my colleague Senator Klobuchar to honor the life of Senator Dave Durenberger, whom we lost, as…

I have yet to see feta on a map, so I think, at times, these GIs clearly restrict our trade.

I think we appreciated that direction from the farm bill.

I have yet to see feta on a map, so I think, at times, these GIs clearly restrict our trade.

I think we appreciated that direction from the farm bill.

This is a significant barrier, a roadblock for U.S. dairy producers.

Can we have the yeas and nays, please? The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The legislative clerk called the roll.

This is a significant barrier, a roadblock for U.S. dairy producers.

Historically, USDA has not done everything that I think it could have to support Tribal producers.

This is related to geographic indicators. The European Union continues to impose geographical indications that can block the use of commonly used household names for cheese and other products.

I have yet to see feta on a map, so I think, at times, these GIs clearly restrict our trade.