Stacey Plaskett

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Add to the end the following: SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON RAISING ENERGY PRICES. This Act, and the amendments…

What we are talking about is giving those who are interested the opportunity to do that.

In my district of the Virgin Islands, our farmers are operating on very small farms.

I think we`re seeing a confluence of so many different cases going on with the former President right now.

Most people in the legal profession are kind of shaking their head at this one.

This hearing is an opportunity for us to hear what we can do to ensure the continued growth and development of this resurging crop.

It is crucial that USDA continue to work to support and expand hemp production and the hemp industry.

With the guidance of the USDA, the Virgin Islands has the potential to begin a new economic era.

In my home district of the U.S. Virgin Islands, small and local hemp producers have already taken advantage of the program.

This hearing of the Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research entitled, An Examination of the USDA Hemp Production Program, will come to order.

Do you believe adequate consumer protections could be achieved by regulating the exchanges and platforms on which most digital assets are bought and sold under the Commodity Exchange Act?

When families can't access quality affordable childcare, they are left with really quite terrible choices. Stop working or reduce hours, which is often impossible to do and make ends meet.

Not all of us has had the luxury of working from home. Many of us have had to go to work in some instances and had to find childcare.

But the amount of the House-passed allotments along with the realistic growth factor based on actual Medicaid costs and the increase in the federal government's share of their Medicaid costs, would provide the stable and adequate funding…

I think our country is better off without having him as the leader of our country at this point.

He is a con artist, who created a slush fund off of the backs of American people through his attempt to overthrow our government through January 6.

I find it so interesting and specious that one of the witnesses say that we should take advice from Donald Trump, who before coming to the presidency, was a failed businessman.

This false ignorant race-baiting theory, called the great replacement has been used in multiple race-based domestic terrorist acts. There are a number of my Republican colleagues who spew this vile and venomous rhetoric, the silence of…

I believe that we as Members of Congress have a responsibility to safeguard all of those areas.

Today, I congratulate Virgin Islander Aliyah Boston, a college basketball player for the South Carolina Gamecocks, on her win against UConn in the NCAA championship, leading the Gamecocks to their second national championship. Aliyah was…

Access to affordable farmland is a major challenge nationally, particularly for people of color, who today make up two percent of farmland owners.

We know how critical the Farm to School Program is to not only support our small farming community...

Whatever anybody says, the child tax credit worked for American families.

Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman.

Today's hearing presents an important opportunity to conduct oversight into the programs from the 2018 Farm Bill and consider how we best support producers and stakeholders.