We are going to get you and this nation that $450 million that is needed in this farm bill.

We have to increase. We have been hit with COVID-19. We have been hit with challenges all the way through.

In my whole career people say I have done great work, but I have done great bipartisan work.

Therefore, it certainly looks like it is cheaper to willingly violate the F-L-S-A than it is to pay employees what they are entitled to receive.

This is a multi-billion-dollar problem. Each year, dishonest employers steal at least $15 billion from workers' paychecks in minimum wage violations alone.

Too often, dishonest employers cheat their employees out of the wages that they are legally entitled to receive.

Raising the Federal minimum wage is an issue of great importance to me and many of the Members of this Subcommittee.

Ultimately, wage theft prevents workers from taking meaningful steps to enter the middle class.

If we want to raise people out of poverty, if we want to ensure that Americans have the opportunity to enter the middle class, and if we believe that workers deserve a decent wage for an honest day's work, then we must enact a meaningful…

Therefore, I'm committed to working with my colleagues to pass the Wage Theft Prevention and Wage Recovery Act of 2022 to ensure workers receive the wages that they earn.

The food supply of this country would not have survived if it weren't for the workers in our plants throughout the country.

The emissions produced by the livestock industry alone are larger than Exxon Mobil, Shell, and BP.