Michelle Lujan Grisham

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

Thank you very much for your support for research.

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.

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?

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

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.

I believe this will expand access to the abundant, healthy, and nutritious food contained within the specialty crop and organic sectors.

It is really very difficult to do.

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

Our objective, I think I can say that for both of us, is really simple. We want to make sure that we are looking at which programs work, and which programs need additional investments or strategies as we undertake the next cycle for the…

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

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

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

We have programs at WIC, we have programs at Head Start that are uniquely focused on SNAP-Education.

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.

I have legislation, ladies and gentleman, that would prohibit that.

It is not the ACA. We do not allow any negotiations with any of those pharmaceutical companies.

Most people in Congress, I will bet, have no idea that it is a privacy portability law that made some changes to the prior COBRA protections.

You want a patient-centered system, take out the people that I have no control over.

Insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies are not trying to make it affordable for anyone.