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Jeff Fortenberry is a Republican politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Nebraska's 1st congressional district from 2005 until 2022. During his tenure, he focused on issues such as agriculture, national security, and fiscal responsibility. Fortenberry was known for his advocacy for rural communities and his efforts to support Nebraska's agricultural economy. He also served on various committees, contributing to discussions on foreign affairs and appropriations. In 2022, he lost his bid for re-election amid challenges in the political landscape.
We are all still reeling from the senseless violence that was perpetrated on the community of Boston. I live a long way from Boston; but, like many Americans, I'm trying to make sense of the senseless. How can someone so cowardly kill with…
there are new entrepreneurial, returning to traditional means of production that are creating a whole host of new opportunities for younger farmers.
do you lose the original spirit whereby you were targeting a particular area of need with a specialized program.
the strength of agriculture in rural communities is essentially tied to production agriculture, and that is a source of a great and economic wellbeing for America.
Well, we would prefer, as you are suggesting, to have a longer-term fix and decrease the uncertainty about this.
Keep looking for that pathway. Because here is an individual who was assisting you on your mission----
Is it time to institutionalize, if you will, drought mitigation and research capacity?
I believe that this is important, and it is a story that we have not told aggressively enough to the rest of the Nation.
Home economics was one of my favorite subjects in school, and were we able to sponsor a bill to bring that back in, I would be all in favor of that.
It is one of the largest programs in the government, and the head of the Food and Nutrition Service was here recently.
We have spent about $15 billion of payouts through crop insurance basically to mitigate the effects on income, which is important and helpful.
the basics of these markets center around three fundamentals. It is capital, time, and interest rates.
I think the challenge here, and I think you actually touched upon it, is to find that balance to ensure that the institutions, land-grant institutions, can actually have the capacity to absorb such a program in their foundational…
That is why it is all the more important that we ensure the integrity of the program.
Nudge is another word. I think that will become the space, the public policy space, or the word du jour in the public policy space.
We engage in so much Washington speak in our debates--words like ``sequestration,'' ``continuing resolutions,'' and ``debt ceiling''--that the structure of our debates, I feel, can be off-putting to many Americans. So let's try to be a…
Again, because of the size, the total expenditure of the problem, even a small drop in fraud actually saves us lots and lots of money.
I think both of us have a responsibility, all of us here actually have a serious responsibility, to continue to reexplain the importance of American agriculture to our people, our Nation.
I would like to speak today about the sequestration and fiscal affairs facing our country. Earlier this month, I was back home in Lincoln, and I went to one of the local diners and saw my friend Norm, and Norm asked me a question. He said…
I think that might be an improvement, and it would get us out of this entanglement as to the centralized authority in this regard to find out how well program missions and clarifications of implementation are actually being followed in a…
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