After brief opening remarks members will receive testimony from our witness today and the hearing will be open to questions. Good morning once again. Welcome to todays hearing receive testimony from the secretary of agriculture. I think my colleagues participating and secretary bill sec for his time we have a lengthy hearing ahead of us. I will be brief and might remarks nearly three years ive traveled across the country to different farmers, ranchers, foresters, Rural Communities and everyday consumers. Many of our colleagues on both sides of the aisle jointly for those travels. The message we have heard from those folks was very clear. They need a government to work for them, not against them. These men and women have struggled with a fractured supply chain, considerable input cost, relentless inflation, natural disasters, volatile markets and labor shortage each consistently worsened by illconceived halfbaked executive action. What seemingly is a daily occurrence taxpayer dollars be
After brief opening remarks members will receive testimony from our witness today and the hearing will be open to questions. Good morning once again. Welcome to todays hearing receive testimony from the secretary of agriculture. I think my colleagues participating and secretary bill sec for his time we have a lengthy hearing ahead of us. I will be brief and might remarks nearly three years ive traveled across the country to different farmers, ranchers, foresters, Rural Communities and everyday consumers. Many of our colleagues on both sides of the aisle jointly for those travels. The message we have heard from those folks was very clear. They need a government to work for them, not against them. These men and women have struggled with a fractured supply chain, considerable input cost, relentless inflation, natural disasters, volatile markets and labor shortage each consistently worsened by illconceived halfbaked executive action. What seemingly is a daily occurrence taxpayer dollars be
Public comment phone number. Id like to welcome the members of the public and staff who are watching us on sf gov tv to eliminate background interference. All panelists and presenters that are presenting via webex are asked to mute themselves when not speaking or waiting to present. Additionally, the San Francisco hsa Das Commission acknowledged that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone, who are the original inhabitants of San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land , and in accordance with their traditions, the ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in this traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homelands. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the Ramaytush Ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peo
Public comment phone number. Id like to welcome the members of the public and staff who are watching us on sf gov tv to eliminate background interference. All panelists and presenters that are presenting via webex are asked to mute themselves when not speaking or waiting to present. Additionally, the San Francisco hsa Das Commission acknowledged that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone, who are the original inhabitants of San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land , and in accordance with their traditions, the ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in this traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homelands. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the Ramaytush Ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peo
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