Step out of partisan boxes and work with me to find Real Solutions to real problems. Weve done it time and time again. This time it didnt work. Nearly four months later, im still deeply disappointed that we didnt solve the border crisis for my state and for our country. But to use this failure as a political punching bag only punishes those who were courageous enough to do the hard work of finding compromise in the first place. So, who will be courageous next time . Who will stand up and do the hard work . Who will take the risks . Who will say yes, ill help solve this big challenge our country faces . Why would anyone . We dont leave today with a political victory. No one wins. No one gets the higher ground. Instead, were saying to each other, dont step out, dont try to solve big problems, stay in your partisan corner, yell some more, blame the other side. Today, yet again, the senate has chosen politics. But my state is still suffering, and as i said on the floor back on february 7,
Ok, everybody but our veterans sit down. Thank you all for serving. My heart is with you. [applause] and you are one of the reasons i did not vote to shut down the government. Because you deserve to be paid and you deserve to be honored. It is great to be with you. As you all know nothing is happening in washington, d. C. In all seriousness its been, you know, a very difficult couple of weeks in washington, d. C. Im sure that you all have heard things just like ive heard things and my family has heard things. Let me just put, you know, a little fact check on some of those things. If i was a democrat, i would have run as a democrat 10 years ago and id have been in congress for a decade. I mean after all we are here in the peoples republic of iowa city, johnson county. Im not a democrat. Im a proud republican. Why do i want to get Appropriations Bills across . Is it because i want to cut spending . No. Its because every one of those Appropriations Bills has republican priorities and repu
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Ok, everybody but our veterans sit down. Thank you all for serving. My heart is with you. [applause] and you are one of the reasons i did not vote to shut down the government. Because you deserve to be paid and you deserve to be honored. It is great to be with you. As you all know nothing is happening in washington, d. C. In all seriousness its been, you know, a very difficult couple of weeks in washington, d. C. Im sure that you all have heard things just like ive heard things and my family has heard things. Let me just put, you know, a little fact check on some of those things. If i was a democrat, i would have run as a democrat 10 years ago and id have been in congress for a decade. I mean after all we are here in the peoples republic of iowa city, johnson county. Im not a democrat. Im a proud republican. Why do i want to get Appropriations Bills across . Is it because i want to cut spending . No. Its because every one of those Appropriations Bills has republican priorities and repu
Witnesses. Our second panel of witnesses to take their seats and we will reconvene basically as soon as our witnesses get comfortably seated here and ready to go. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2024] captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org. Mr. Thompson meeting will come to order and pleased to welcome our second panel on this topic today regarding the threats of china to american agriculture. First witness for the second panel is josh, president of the american soybean association. Second witness is nova brings private and Public Sector experience, numerous agencies, the senate and cfius committee and third and time witness for this panel is a great friend. Committee the former United States ambassador to United Nations agencies for food and agriculture. U. S. Soy is working in 112 markets to introduce new customers to our high quality, high protein crops. Opening new ma