Glenn Thompson

I will stress that this Committee remains skeptical of the legal authority provided to you and your office under the CCC for this program.

We encourage USDA and FDA to carefully consider the feedback provided by stakeholders.

I look forward to us doing better.

I look forward to working with you in that arena.

I do think the consensus is out there, maybe not on exactly what to do, but there is a need for change.

I know it is important throughout our dairy states. I am glad that dairy stakeholders are having serious discussions about the potential reforms to the Federal Milk Marketing Order system.

Our communities are looking for solutions, and they don't need onerous Federal regulatory burdens.

Folks do not believe this Administration is in their corner.

President Biden has fostered an agenda that is kind of rife for executive overreach and regulatory uncertainty.

Top-down Washington dictates on to consumers is a flawed strategy.

We will not, we must not, and we cannot do with them the way we have been doing in bringing rural broadband.

There is no industry that does that better anywhere in the world, certainly anywhere in this nation, than agriculture.

I will describe it that way, and get to work on really ag-centric issues.

If you compromise one for the other, it is going to fail.

Congress should not be picking winners and losers.

I don't think he should be making those decisions for consumers, quite frankly.

Thank you again, and God bless you.

Your testimony was brilliant. It truly was. It was well-prepared and well-received on our end.

I encourage you to check out the SUSTAINS Act (H.R. 2606, Sponsoring USDA Sustainability Targets in Agriculture to Incentivize Natural Solutions Act of 2021).

I will tell you, we are not putting anything at risk here in terms of our ability to do everything else that is important for the CCC.

The way I envision the future is through questions.

I echo the sentiment of Ranking Member Johnson, and echo his calls for this Administration to prioritize trade.

The Administration needs to step up and work overtime to mitigate the many problems impacting our supply chains.

It is really disturbing that we don't have, as of yet, an official Chief Agriculture Trade Negotiator.

We need our trading partners to stand by their existing commitments, and we have issues with that.