"My bill establishes an Interagency Committee on Soil Carbon Research led by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy."
"I want to urge the Committee to ensure that the next farm bill uses the almost $20 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act for its intended purpose in USDA conservation programs."
"Yet, that is precisely what the GAO found. There are 1,341 producers making more than $900,000 a year in gross income, who have 2/3 of their insurance premium paid for by the Federal Government."
"In my state, 89 percent of the farmers receive no subsidies from the Federal Government."
"Commodity crops accounted for 94 percent of crop insurance policies, whereas the whole farm revenue policies that service smaller diversified farms... accounted for less than one percent of the polici..."
"I encourage the Committee to protect the much needed adjustments that were made to the Thrifty Food Plan."
"I am proud to be a cosponsor of H.R. 205, the SNAP Theft Protection Act."
"I would like the Committee to include a notable bipartisan bill that I introduced with Rep. Juan Ciscomani, H.R. 5242."
"As all the Members of Congress, I hear lots and lots of negative feedback on our constituent service."
"Even--I have one of the wealthiest districts in the country, Northern Virginia, and yet there are huge pockets of poverty."
"I think we have to recognize that there is a balance there between the enormous advantages to having a mother stay home."
"There have been a number of Republican amendments already to make SNAP benefits ever harder to access."