Mike Conaway: “I reserve the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Georgia is advised that he has 3 minutes…”

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…

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.

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.

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