Mike Conaway: “Reclaiming my time, does the committee chairman agree that the Food for Peace program, which is wholly separate from the…”

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

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.

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

I thank my colleague from Colorado (Mr. Lamborn) for those overly kind words, and I certainly appreciate his sentiments for my service. And I, too, will miss our Armed Services Committee hearings and sitting beside him. He is a terrific…