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
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Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon. My name is michael kugelman, the senior associate for south asia with the Wilson Centers asian program. Thank you all for coming. Before forget i just want to thank our institutional cosponsors which are the middle east program and also the Wilson Centers global womens leadership initiative. I also wanted to welcome those of doing this on cspan. As you all know afghanistan is experiencing a great period of uncertainty. International combat troops have left a fragile new unity government is in place. The taliban has been ramping up its attacks of late including in kabul. And once again and there are rumors of buttons to start these talks between the Afghan Government and the taliban. In recent days the chinese reportedly hosted taliban and Afghan Government representatives for informal discussions about the possibility of talks. This all makes for very tenuous time in afghanistan but also and especially for afghan women. Even the horrific track