Mike Conaway

The Farmers to Families Food Box Program (FFFBP) was the victim of a rushed process that included no engagement with current distributors and nonprofits and resulted in cherry-picked contractors who were not qualified.

Thank you for your leadership on behalf of America's farmers and ranchers, especially in such trying times.

We urge Congress to continue to provide people the means to access healthy food.

The contract Borden was awarded through the Farmers to Families Food Box Program enabled us to preserve employment and benefits for our people.

We need to make sure that people that are unemployed, people that are having a tough time, have enough food to take care of their kids.

I am all for that, but just to have an open-ended check I don't think is necessarily a good idea.

I am grateful we have a new farm bill in place and a President who constantly stands up for the very Americans who provide our food and fiber.

Given the effectiveness of the Food for Peace Program, I believe, and the support from stakeholders, it is clear and important that we maintain that bipartisan effort.

It is critical and absolutely crucial that food assistance and agriculture development efforts focus on building resilience.

I want American farmers participating in this, and American people support these programs in large part because they think it is American-grown products that are being used over there.

I share Chairman Peterson's concerns over hemp. I am worried we have opened Pandora's box.

I share Chairman Peterson's concerns over hemp. I am worried we have opened Pandora's box.

Shame on us for allowing that to happen.

It is one thing for China to use our farmers and ranchers and rural America as a weapon against President Trump...

With all that our farmers and ranchers are going through, it is vital that we pass USMCA just as soon as practically possible.

Perhaps the most important thing that this Congress can do to improve not just the livestock and poultry economies, but the entire agriculture sector, is ratify the U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement, or USMCA as we know it.

Broadband access is not about convenience. It is about being able to participate in modern life and the economy.

The first meeting I was in this morning, a gentleman said, 'Do you want to beat people or win people?'

Our problem is us. We need to adjust it and make adjustments to these rules and the regulations.

Let's have those kind of conversations as opposed to defending a loophole that allows some families in America to be treated differently.

It is not a matter of taking the benefits away from folks who meet the requirements; it is making sure that those scarce resources go to the ones who need it the most.

We have a SNAP program. It is important, and we are going to keep it. The issue is, how do we administer that program that is fair to the folks who need the benefits and is also fair to the taxpayers?

And I am relieved that the final farm bill that reflected the negotiation between the House and Senate basically cut out all of this language that would have punished low-income people in this country.

We need to adjust it and make adjustments to these rules and the regulations in order that scarce resources can, in fact, go to the folks who need them the most.