"I live in a state... that since I have been in Congress is either the hungriest state in the nation, or it has the hungriest children in the nation."
"I proposed that if we were really trying to address hunger, then we should be providing three meals a day."
"We enjoy the safest, most affordable, and most abundant food supply in the world in large part due to sustained public investment in agricultural research."
"Thank you very much for your support for research."
"The current Administration is cutting agricultural discretionary spending by about $4.7 billion."
"We are being outspent by China, who is continuing to increase and bolster its research investments."
"It is imperative that we continue to talk about ways to reverse, or at least slow, the decline in research funding."
"Washington spends millions on crop research. Why doesn't more go toward the foods we're actually supposed to eat?"
"one of the greatest challenges that we face in New Mexico, and many rural states face, is the difficulty of getting healthy, fresh, and nutritious foods to rural areas and food deserts, especially Ind..."
"The focus of all of our conversations ought to be on the incentives, and I don't want to lose momentum."
"The core issue is that we want the flexibility for states and rural communities and communities to really figure out how to do it."