I want to believe that the Biden administration does want to support rural America, and I know that Iowa farmers want to believe that, too.

The idea was to get better coordination between Interior, Commerce, and Treasury.

In the Farm Bill, we included a tribal self-determination procurement demonstration project.

We need to do more to empower Native American entrepreneurs.

We just need to keep promoting it, Alaska salmon and halibut, and all the great fish there.

What can the CFTC do, in your opinion, to really make a difference for them?

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We should use the existing programs.

I thank Senator Cramer for his comments and wonderful commentary on these great student athletes, but there is one other point I want to make that goes to the excellence of this program. In the last national championship they won, the…

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

The House Reconciliation bill imposes a new fee on methane emissions, which I am sure concerns our Chairman, as well as myself, which is--it is just a tax on natural gas.

I thank the senior Senator from Minnesota for her hard work in getting Michael Connor to the floor. I have been very pleased to join with her, and, obviously, we are hopeful that, tomorrow, we will have that vote. The position of the…

I am pleased to be here and follow my good friend, the Senator from the great State of Alaska, a State that produces an incredible amount of energy, as does my State of North Dakota. And, of course, we are here to talk about how this…

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I think we are creating a financial market where credits are going to be bought and sold, and it is important to have a market that has integrity, that has transparency, and that is free from fraud and manipulation.

You need to understand, this issue is still very real and one that I think is crying out for some solutions.

Are there things that you will try to do with the CFTC that would help our small farmers and ranchers better hedge their livestock or crops?

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Are there steps that the Administration should take to provide more flexibility to ranchers looking for additional sources of forage?

Yes. And the Ranking Member actually asked one of the questions I was going to ask in terms of some of these other programs that can be helpful.

Our policy should not pick winners and losers based on the farm size or geography.

The year 2020 exposed some very significant vulnerabilities in the way we price milk in the Federal Milk Marketing Order systems.