To participate in another proceeding please exit this one and like back in later. Any that a member encounters technical issues that prevent them from being recognized from their questioning i will move to the next available member of the same body and will recognize the member of the next appropriate timeslot provided they have returned to the proceeding. In the event the witness loses connectivity during testimony or questioning i will preserve their time as staff address technical issue. I may need to recess the proceedings to provide time for the witness to reconnect. Finally remembered to remain muted until you recognize to minimize background noise. Over the last few months the outbreak of covid19 has led to an unprecedented Public Health crisis and creating a dire economic crisis for small firms. Three out of four businesses are experiencing a decrease in revenue and over half of Small Businesses are concerned about being forced to close. Small businesses across the Food Supply
Screeria nigeria. National review host an idea summit examining conservatism. Next, a hearing on seafood industry and regulations. Louisiana senator david vitter has introduced legislation that would increase inspection standards on imported seafood to ensure foreign inspectors meet Safety Standards. This hearing is an hour and 20 minutes. Good afternoon. Were going to start our hearing today on the impact of federal labor and safety laws on the u. S. Seafood industry. Thanks for joining us today. Were going to be hearing from two panels of expert witnesses and stakeholders a federal panel who ill introduce in a minute and then a stakeholder panel. I want to thank all of our witnesses for being here today to testify on these important issues. As anyone who has visited louisiana knows, we enjoy great quality seafood and that plays a major role in our culture and in our economy. And this is true for other states in the United States. It is an important part of our economy. In louisiana t
I want to try to explore some of the different Delivery Systems that youre talking about there, whether its space heating, efficient design, housing technologies. I was out in an isolated territory with the secretary of state on friday. You realize how isolated these communities are, even communities of significant size and significant resource. But the challenges they face, they also are exclusively powered by diesel. And expensive. Extraordinarily, extraordinarily expensive. So how we deal with this. And weve got so much to learn from one another. And this is where i think we have certain advantages coming at us as we take over the chair of the arctic counsel, how we can be partnering with our northern neighbors in understanding some of the best technologies that are out there. But i would encourage us to look at what we have, developing in alaska, whether its the Cold Climate Housing Research center, the Innovative Technologies that have been coming out of there in regards to sustai
Crops, sugar processing, forestry, livestock, Restaurant Industry and others. This would leave the United States and the state of louisiana no alternative but to import many Food Products for food countries, from countries with surplus foreign labor. This is unacceptable. We must do everything in our power to grow and support americas jobs and economy. Were asking for your help. We must streamline and expedite the h2b process. We need a working system without overburdensome rules, unrealistic timetables and outright road blocks. Neglecting the labor needs of agriculture will raise the cost and the production in a way that harms farmers, fishers and industries throughout america. I appreciate your time and encourage you to work with us to find workable solutions. Ways that we can facilitate rather than making it so difficult to where our processors and our industries cannot operate. Where were at currently, we have a large crawfish harvest. And we dont have enough peelers to process it.
Facts of this case the Economic Situation are somewhat different that are ordinarily true in this industry because as handlers the hornes actually assumed the full financial responsibility for the raisins that were not turned over to the department of agricultural. The producers in this case were fully paid for their raisins. This is a factual finding to be found in the judicial officers opinion at 66 a of the appendix to the petition. The hornes paid the producers for their raisins corn to the judicial officer, those raisins became part of the inventory of the hornes. When the risen Administrative Committee which i will refer to as the r. A. C. Came after the raisins it was the hornes and the hornes only who bore the economic burden of this taking. I thought the growers were paid only for the volume that they were permitted that was permitted the permitted volume and that they were not paid for what goes in the reserve pool . Justice ginsburg that is true in the ordinary coarse. That