Cindy Hyde-Smith

Thank you, Senator Gillibrand, for holding this hearing today and to discuss milk pricing challenges.

The authors of that provision certainly could not have foreseen the severe market challenges that occurred in 2020 nor could they have anticipated the unintended economic consequences of that 2018 formula change.

I am proud that during the 2020 years of COVID my colleagues and I advanced bipartisan legislation to support dairy farm families through the pandemic.

Could not be more proud that you have been nominated for this.

I think this is a very qualified nominee.

We consistently hear about these delays, and these issues, and these problems; mainly with Social Security checks.

I have it right here on my phone.

The budget request for the United States Postal Service is $263 million. This represents a $13 million increase over the fiscal year 2021 enacted level.

I am getting hundreds of calls from producers, from beef cattle producers that are saying, 'Cindy, what is wrong with this market?'

I applaud American Farm Bureau President Zippy Duvall for establishing a Cattle Market Working Group in April 2020.

No one is out to destroy any company, any industry. The packers are very vital in our industry, and we realize that.

We have got to be the voice to protect this industry.

They are being treated very unfairly right now, and I think that it is time for that to stop.

What we have been seeing in the cattle markets--rock-bottom prices for fed cattle yet sky-high prices for boxed-beef--just defies the basic laws of economics, supply and demand.

I believe it is critical that we recognize the important role fossil fuel resources will play in meeting the demands of Americans.

Charter schools have given parents the flexibility to decide which schools best fits their child's needs, individually, and not the government.

So, all we have to do is really contact your Department and for these individual questions, because I know they have some really good ideas, but we want to make sure we are following the guidelines the way that we are supposed to be doing…

As we know from COVID, so many kids got just really far behind in so many areas.

Twenty percent, though, you know, that is pretty serious for the life threatening or resulted in death.

I would also like to ask consent to include those studies in the record for this hearing.

I believe it is critical that we recognize the important role fossil fuel resources will play in meeting the demands of Americans.

New data has just been released by NORC at the University of Chicago finding that nearly two-thirds of assisted living facilities reported no deaths from COVID-19 in 2020.

I believe that science is best when it's ethical and respects the dignity of life.

We are concerned about that, and that the justification rule from 1995 is still being used.

The possibility of thousands of illegal immigrants crossing the Southern border and being transported to our State is what the concern is.