Eric Sorensen

We have an obligation to ensure spaceflight safety.

Our bill removes the disparity between service and non-service connected conditions and increases the lifetime limit to $10,000 for all disabled veterans.

We need to harness this momentum to deliver justice to our military firefighters and their families.

It would increase financial assistance to veterans and active-duty service members for medically necessary home improvements and structural alterations.

We all owe a debt of gratitude to the men and women who served our country honorably.

I am formally inviting all of you to my office and talk about things, regardless of how you provide services.

I plan to introduce the House version of the Access to Capital Creates Economic Strength and Supports Rural America Act.

The approach my bill takes will ensure that underserved constituents can benefit from ReConnect grants and loans, just like unserved constituents.

Yesterday, I introduced the bipartisan ReConnecting Rural America Act, along with my colleagues in this Committee.

I am formally inviting all of you to sit in my office and talk about things, regardless of how you provide services.

How can we ensure that Congress is doing the right things addressing this in the farm bill?

Without robust investment, the agriculture sector, a bedrock of our economy, risks losing its global competitiveness.

Land-grant universities, like the University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne, are responsible for about 70 percent of all the agricultural research in the United States.

As a scientist, I have long said that we don't have a silver bullet to solve climate change. Instead, we have silver buckshot.

I'm a strong believer that talent comes from all corners of our Nation.

I agree with you, the need is increasing today, which makes me question why anyone would want to make cuts.

I do not support changes to SNAP that will take away food from older Americans, children, families, veterans, people with disabilities.

SNAP has served as an essential safety net for my constituents, and boosts income for the agriculture industry.

Cutting benefits would also harm our nation's farmers, who are supported by programs like SNAP and incentives within it.

We need NRCS to properly implement many of the conservation programs in the farm bill.

The region features extremely productive, but very fragile soils vulnerable to erosion.

The place is special, and it includes my district in northwestern Illinois.

I don't believe that the fearmongering with those in most need by playing partisan politics with disingenuous talking points, I think that is neither productive or appropriate for this Committee, and that should stop.

I was raised in abject rural poverty by a single mother. I was on what were actually food stamps at the time.

Thank you to the Chairman and Ranking Member for convening this hearing.