This administration has held fast the position that national security concerns remain sacrosanct and out of bounds for multilateral body to consider.

Representative Anna Eshoo has been leading on this issue with several bills, including the Drug Origin Transparency Act.

I have engaged with it many times. When children's Tylenol was scarce, Raul Grijalva and I led an inquiry to see if the administration could take action.

This bill is not perfect, but no bill ever is. This act is win-win-win. There will be 400,000 children who will be lifted out of poverty. There will be 200,000 new affordable homes built. Research and development, the absolute essential…

I rise this morning to honor the extraordinary career of Ken Smith, who at one time was from Delaware and then Virginia and now makes his home in Florida. A long time ago, in the faraway land of Delaware, Ken was a young policy assistant…

My farmer-led energy future proposal puts rural communities in the driver's seat so the farmers themselves can look at incorporating potential additional income streams of renewable energy.

I just feel this will be stealing money from Virginia farmers, from America's farmers that they have already anticipated receiving, $275 million just in Virginia.

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.

We should use the farm bill to direct USDA to be a better partner to farmers practicing perennial agriculture.

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 policies sold.

This can be done in a way so that prime farmland isn't lost and supports rather than competes with a farming future.

My bill establishes an Interagency Committee on Soil Carbon Research led by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

I have been a champion of wildlife corridors over my past decade in Congress, since my first term when I introduced the bipartisan Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act.

In my state, 89 percent of the farmers receive no subsidies from the Federal Government.

I would like the Committee to include a notable bipartisan bill that I introduced with Rep. Juan Ciscomani, H.R. 5242.

I believe the farm bill is an opportunity for the USDA to improve their assistance and recognition of farmers and ranchers who have voluntarily conserved their lands as wildlife corridors.

It is really wonderful to be able to talk about key priorities.

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.

This would be stealing money from Virginia farmers.

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 am supporting the incorporation of the Agricultural Resilience Act authored by Congresswoman Chellie Pingree in your farm bill.

I'm proud to co-lead this bipartisan bill with Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin of MI, Congressman Mike Bost of IL, and Senator Sherrod Brown of OH.

As all the Members of Congress, I hear lots and lots of negative feedback on our constituent service.

There have been a number of Republican amendments already to make SNAP benefits ever harder to access.