Glenn Thompson

But I remain concerned that without a robust and forward-thinking trade agenda, our producers--large and small--risk being excluded from markets.

I don't think that it serves us to be starving people abroad. I think that it helps Americans for us to be feeding people all over the world.

I will just share that the ambassador from India was--we sat for a 2 hour breakfast in Cary, North Carolina. He expressed a significant desire to improve trade with the United States.

Agriculture is the backbone of most of the world's economies, and heavily relies on international trade.

Expanding trading relationships with new and emerging markets across Africa and Southeast Asia can offer substantial opportunities.

Robust and fair trade agreements are not outdated tools, rather they can protect our agricultural interests.

Without a robust and forward-thinking trade agenda, our producers risk being excluded from markets.

Agriculture is the backbone to most of the world's economies, and heavily relies on international trade.

Our committees have an historic opportunity to work together to create a comprehensive digital assets market framework.

I hope we are able to work together in a bipartisan manner on substantive legislation to address the issues that are being discussed today.

The current process to determine if a digital asset is a security or not is unclear, unworkable, and impractical.

I want to echo my fellow colleagues' comments and thank our members and witnesses for being here today.

Thank you to all the witnesses that are here today for lending your expertise to this incredibly important hearing.

We firmly believe that Congress and market regulators should work together to establish a framework for the digital asset ecosystem.

We believe that regulatory uncertainty constitutes a major impediment to U.S. innovation and investment.

It will take the cooperation of committees and regulators to build a workable framework to oversee digital assets.

Digital asset developers, users, and institutions need clear, thoughtful rules of the road to create these solutions.

I think that there is great potential for digital assets to provide significant value for the American public.

Hey, good afternoon, everybody, and thank you to all the witnesses that are here today for lending your expertise to this incredibly important hearing.

We thank their bipartisan leadership and echo many of the sentiments raised in that letter.

Many of you mentioned Federal crop insurance in your testimony. As you well know, there have been attempts in Congress to gut the program by imposing an adjusted gross income means testing, payment limits, things like that.

It will be incumbent upon us to navigate the politics to get the best possible farm bill to the President's desk.

This letter to the Budget Committee clearly articulated the needs and justifications for additional resources to write a meaningful farm bill.

I have heard loud and clear that the farm safety net, both commodity policy and crop insurance, needs improvements.

Today, the countryside is coming to us, and I am very pleased that we will hear directly from producers about the priorities of ten national commodity groups.