I want to emphasize my commitment to ensuring that we are exploring every avenue for addressing the climate crisis.

I'm hopeful that they will strengthen conservation programs and maximize the benefits delivered to farmers.

Any investment Congress makes in title II programs are not just an investment in the future of our planet, but also in the long-term economic success of rural America and America's farmers.

Conservation agriculture holds enormous potential to help combat the climate crisis--both through increased soil carbon sequestration and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

Title II programs provide much needed technical and financial assistance to encourage the adoption of cover crops, reduced- to no-till management systems, and prescribed grazing systems.

There is perhaps no greater tool available than the farm bill's conservation programs.

I'm excited to be here today for our first hearing of the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry in the 117th Congress.

I worked across the aisle to introduce the H.R. 2820, Growing Climate Solutions Act on Earth Day this year.

The United States, and the U.S. Congress, must remain committed to sustaining the peace process and generating cross-community engagement and economic opportunity in Northern Ireland.

I find this so fascinating, because, particularly with students in student exchange, it provides such an opportunity to uncover and understand that sometimes, the differences that might create tensions are, in fact, not nearly as profound as we may have thought.

peace is not just something you reach, and then becomes a permanent State. It is something that requires continual focus, and it needs to be affirmed and reaffirmed.