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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Hearing runs an hour and a half. [background noises] clicks good morning everyone broke all this hearing of the Senate Budget committee to order. Let me begin by expressing condolences to might distinguish Ranking Member for the loss of life in iowa. H no doubt described as a pop rock elliptic touchdown. And cause considerable death and destruction. Today we have a different topic thank you for. Yes, sir. We address how Climate Change is making drought more severe question magnifies so many of the other risks we talked about in this committee. Climate change exacerbates the severity of droughts. Major agricultural regions like the American West of the mediterranean precedent less precipitation in many places art whiplash bite wild swings between drought and delusion. Almost everywhere is experiencing increased heat. The most straightforward of these is increased heat. Hotter weather means higher demand for water to drink, to support agriculture but even to cool power plants. Without co
Cspan. Org podcast. Water policy experts from western states joint science and environmental professors from Iowa State University that university of colorado at boulder to testify on Climate Change has certain regions of the country are affected by water scarcity. The Senate Budget Committee Hearing runs an hour and a half. [background noises] clicks good morning everyone broke all this hearing of the Senate Budget committee to order. Let me begin by expressing condolences to might distinguish Ranking Member for the loss of life in iowa. H no doubt described as a pop rock elliptic touchdown. And cause considerable death and destruction. Today we have a different topic thank you for. Yes, sir. We address how Climate Change is making drought more severe question magnifies so many of the other risks we talked about in this committee. Climate change exacerbates the severity of droughts. Major agricultural regions like the American West of the mediterranean precedent less precipitation in