Jim Baird

The fact that a nuclear Iran is unacceptable.

I introduced H.R. 4824, the Carbon Sequestration Calibration Act--there's a name for you--but anyway, a bill that authorizes the Department of Energy to carry out terrestrial carbon sequestration research and development.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member. And I always appreciate you witnesses taking the time to share your expertise with this Committee.

The more that we could capture in the soil, the better off we would be.

And then most recently our Ambassador accused South Africa of loading arms onto the ship Lady R for use against Ukraine.

The Global Facility and Fragility Act sets a decade-long time horizon on the address of political and social drivers of conflict, a laudable goal but one insufficient to address the immediacy of the security threat posed by the JNIM and…

Connectivity is everything, whether it is healthcare, business, education.

Thank you for holding today's hearing titled: 'A Review of Title VII: University Perspectives on Research and Extension Programs.'

At that hearing, we also heard about the backlog of deferred maintenance on research facilities across the nation.

Many of the programs that provide capacity and competitive funding for these institutions are authorized in the research title of the farm bill.

Recognizing the role of other universities, the 2008 Farm Bill included provisions to identify non-land-grant colleges of agriculture (NLGCAs) and Hispanic-serving agricultural colleges and universities (HSACUs).

Today, the land-grant universities have a mission that is threefold: to provide instruction, conduct research, and disseminate the instruction and research throughout each state through the Cooperative Extension Service.

When USDA was created by President Lincoln in 1862, the primary objective of the Department was to 'acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture.'

Good morning and welcome to today's hearing on agricultural research and extension activities across the nation's universities.

When this Subcommittee met a few months ago to hear directly from USDA on research program efficacy, we discussed how agricultural research has yielded our economy $20 for every $1 spent.

They are diverting and weaponizing this international aid.

Actions by Iran suggest that this accord has not led to a stabilization of the region.

All we are asking for is to keep it where it is.

We are here to help the disabled. And when you throw in our veterans, who are living in food-insecure households at a rate of 7.4 percent greater than the general population.

Who is going to take care of those children, the disability, the people who are in these homes that SNAP is giving the attention to?

That age is so important, and that is why we Democrats feel strongly in holding this age at this pattern.

We do. But we have a reason for putting it at the age where it is least hurtful for the very people we are trying to help.

Let me just share with you why I oppose moving from the 49 years of age that we have the work requirements.

I don't use the word work requirements. I use the word job opportunities.

I think we have an obligation to do that.