I would appeal to you all, while there is some effort to demonstrate--to give cash, I would ask that you all continue the policy that has been in the past to let us use commodities grown by U.S. growers.

Thousands of low-income elderly people rely on this program here in America to supplement their diets.

The thing that is standing between them and starvation? The United States of America.

I want to thank you for the decision to open up Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) for emergency haying and grazing.

So we really would appreciate your partnership in helping to take on that specific challenge.

If American manufacturing had the same level of basic research, applied research, and a delivery system like the extension service, we would not be talking about the demise of American manufacturing.

the agriculture issues that come up, a lot of the programs that are cut in here are the ones that the farmers are raising for me.

I appreciate that very much, because those funds out in the field can do a lot.

So I wanted, first, to invite you to come to that agricultural region, so you can firsthand see some of the impacts there...

Would you consider, as you enter that dialogue, consulting with the subcommittee here on what should or should not be in a rescission bill?

That program has a huge impact on our soft power in the world, and also on our moral leadership in the world.

I will never forget meeting these three women at a refugee camp in Kenya.

the budget before us for agriculture and rural development is cut more than $5 billion, more than 25 percent from the fiscal year 2018 omnibus levels.

Thank you very much. And I really have appreciated the dialogue over the last year on multiple issues.

We need to pick our battles, would be a point I would make to you. We need more trade agreements, not less.

Yes, well defend it. Why are you cutting it to zero?

Let's put a stake through the heart of that, through the heart of that conversation.

It's the most horrific idea we have heard in the Northwest ever and take it off the table.

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Again, I go back to the fact that our most precious resource is the blood of the men and women who serve. When we can get others to go and share the burden, then we reduce the need to send our sons and daughters.

There is nothing about starvation in the world or human suffering that should ever be a partisan issue.

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