"Failure to act and extend these waivers will mean more hungry kids, higher costs for parents, and a lot of confusion and lack of planning for school districts across the country."
"I urge my colleagues in the House and the Senate to heed the pleas from our local school districts, take up the bipartisan legislation, Keeping School Meals Flexible Act (H.R. 6613), to extend these w..."
"Now more than ever, food banks rely on this program."
"TEFAP is a great program. We support it 100 percent. We want to see additional funding because that food is a lifeline, in particular for smaller food banks serving smaller communities."
"This hearing of the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry entitled, A 2022 Review of the Farm Bill: Forestry, will come to order."
"Healthy forests, both public and private, are critical to our fight against the climate crisis."
"Thank you so very much, Mr. Chairman. And to our witnesses, I thank you so much for your time for being with us today."
"Thank you for sharing your experiences, and thank you for bringing greater clarity to your answer and in raising awareness about having local steps for raising concerns or bringing challenges."
"there is this substantial unmet need for connecting farmers with the technical assistance that the USDA and FSA programs provide"
"the benefits for new farmers to get to that next step, whether it is buying the tractor, buying the land, that capital is so important"
"it is also making sure there are new farmers who did not come from farming, that new land is in production"
"there are over a dozen Federal definitions of rural."