Our job in Congress is to assist and promote what you do as producers.

we are penalizing those poorest and most at risk in our country.

The current Administration is cutting agricultural discretionary spending by about $4.7 billion.

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.

If your question is, do the states need to work and align more closely with the Federal Government before we roll out these systems, I would agree.

I proposed that if we were really trying to address hunger, then we should be providing three meals a day.

It should not ever be tolerated.

I know how important it is to provide my children and my granddaughter with the nutritious foods that she needs.

The Margin Protection Program is the right idea. We just have to get it tweaked so that it works, especially for the small guys.

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 Indian Country.

It is really very difficult to do.

It is a two-avenue approach, and your being here helps both those avenues; first, advocacy for immigration reform; but, also talking about mechanization.

Given that votes have been called, I will forgo a glowing, fabulous description of our New Mexico witness.

We would also like to take this opportunity to work with you to protect low-income and vulnerable Americans as well as Americans with disabilities against any proposed Federal cuts to the SNAP program or other safety net programs.

The AVMA urges Congress to redouble our nation's commitment to the entirety of USDA's Research, Education, and Economics (REE) mission area.

There needs to be parallel efforts to think about the marketing and the education in connecting buyers.

I would just love to make to the group, that in the testimony where work requirements and getting folks out of poverty is certainly an issue that is bipartisan, a one-size-fits-all model, I agree, never works.

There is a sense that there are so many easy ways and that it is all duplicated, and that in fact we are overfeeding or over-providing.

I am in favor of at least a 57 percent increase. Instead of $338 million, it ought to be $500 million.

Since 2014, milk prices have fallen 40% causing dairy farmers to see their incomes cut in half.

The economic impact of dairy on New Mexico cannot be understated.

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.

Not only would cuts to the SNAP program reverse years of gains that cities and states like New York have made in service delivery it would also harm local economies.

We are being outspent by China, who is continuing to increase and bolster its research investments.

the challenges are incredible, and these safety net programs are incredibly valuable and important.