Jeff Fortenberry

This is the largest, by far, part of the USDA budget.

Your input will be critical as Chairman Bishop and I work to responsibly fund the USDA, the Food and Drug Administration, as well as the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, and the Farm Credit Administration.

How are we defining the gap? How are we closing the gap?

We are all singularly focused on a safe and healthy and vibrant food system as well as vibrant world communities.

Rural broadband is more than wires laid and money spent. It is about the meaning of that process.

I thought this was a great and insightful discussion today across the broad range of agricultural considerations and rural development considerations that are affecting America.

First of all, I want to thank you for your leadership, sir. I do appreciate our friendship and our ability to think critically together and to collaborate.

We have got a huge opportunity to embrace this digital leap and to make sure that the funds available are pointed and meet their intended recipients' goals.

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I thank the ranking member for yielding. I also add my thanks to my good friend, Chair Lowey, upon her retirement from Congress. Thank you so much for your grace-filled leadership all these years. I am very happy for you in this new phase…

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I want to thank Ranking Member Granger for yielding. But first, let me acknowledge the service of our chair, Mrs. Lowey. I am so grateful for her graciousness, friendship, and especially the extraordinary example the gentlewoman sets in…

I thank the ranking member for the time, and perhaps we can continue that discussion in another venue because today I am rising in support of this act. Mr. Speaker, a while back I was at the Library of Congress and I met the famous…

I thank the gentleman for yielding, as well as Mr. DeFazio for his leadership on this bill. Mr. Speaker, the Recovering America's Wildlife Act, I believe, is the single most exciting policy development in the conservation space in decades…

I thank Congressman Shimkus, because as he was speaking, I was reminded of my own Concordia College I represent, which is a part of the consortium of Lutheran colleges, which I know is very close to his heart. So I thank him for mentioning…

I am going to remove my mask as I speak. We are appropriately socially distanced here. I am grateful for the time. Before I begin my own remarks, I am going to yield to the honorable gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Shimkus), a senior member…

Our world has changed. Who could imagine just 3 short months ago where we would be right now as this silent avenger has threatened life, the life that we knew, and we suddenly found ourselves quarantined in our homes and apartments with…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Steve called me recently. He has one of the businesses that has been hardest hit by coronavirus. He is down 90 percent. We talked through some issues. Steve decided to fight back. He got in line early…

I mean, that is just sort of the daily life that we are seeing there, and we cannot rest with that happening.

The United States continues to lead the world in terms of humanitarian relief, and, frankly, charitable generosity.

Food security is the foundation for stabilization as well as human flourishing.

In this past budget, not in report language, but in bill language, we were finally able to get what you and I have talked about in terms of security.

If you could help me, I think this would be a great bipartisan effort.

First of all, let me thank Chairman Neguse for his profound words, generous words, kind words, and committed support to this bill. I also thank Ranking Member McClintock for his review of this impactful history of our Nation. This is the…