"I am very thankful for this hearing, although its title is misleading."
"Several market participants have indicated that this threshold is alarmingly low."
"I also heard that a historically uneventful market basket update has been proudly manipulated to solely allow Democrats to increase the welfare state."
"I have also gathered that this Administration continues to demonize farmers, frankly, of all sizes in cases where they do not subscribe to a far-left climate agenda."
"What specific policies and procedures has USDA implemented in light of this development?"
"But the fact is that, to do that, there are good ways to do that and there are ways that really aren't helping the American farmer."
"What is disingenuous is the leading factor in terms of hunger for many families that are struggling really in poverty is the cost of living, the impact of inflation."
"If we don't take this issue seriously, we are going to have chaos in the marketplace because there is nothing preventing any state from doing what California did."
"My view is the Federal Government should either support producers or get out of their way."
"Quite frankly, it is a unilateral insertion of USDA into the private marketplace, costing billions in taxpayer dollars with zero metrics for success and zero transparency."
"We obviously are very interested in making sure it doesn't happen again."