Soil health is a critical topic for this Subcommittee to address because it underpins so many of our other conservation efforts.

Healthy soil also reduces risk.

Iowans are very connected to our soil, as many of you can imagine.

If we don't find a way to conserve and preserve our soil, farmers are going to pay the price first.

Healthy soil also reduces risk: in recent years, droughts and floods have cost our economy billions of dollars.

Because healthy soils benefit not only farmers but the public at large, USDA provides financial support to farmers to implement soil health practices.

I personally appreciate Committee Members Angie Craig and Dusty Johnson for introducing legislation and their leadership on this issue.

The crisis is clear. Iowa's black gold... is at risk.

I would like to speak today in support of House Resolution 432, condemning the attacks on peaceful protestors and supporting an immediate peaceful transition to a civilian-led democratic government in Sudan.

I ask all of my colleagues to support House Resolution 432.

It is so vitally important for us, as members of the U.S. Congress, to stand up for civilians and those who are using their voices.