Mike Conaway: “I fear that agriculture's unique opportunities to combat climate change are being overlooked.”

Before I get to my objections to the amendment, I want to congratulate the chairman, the majority members of the committee, as well as the majority staff for the great work they did in helping us bring a fully bipartisan bill to the floor…

I want to specifically thank Chairman Takano and Ranking Member Roe for bringing this bill to the floor and allowing this much-deserved recognition of two young heroes from Odessa, Texas. Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record the official…

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

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