Implemented properly. Agriculture, nutrition and Forestry Committee members talked to farmers, Rural Utility Service officials and Healthcare Industry leaders about issues impacting Rural Communities. Including access to Rural Broadband, Water Infrastructure and Health Care Services and agricultural production. Good morning. I call this hearing of the Senate Committee on agriculture and nutrition and forestry to order. Todays hearing advances this committees continued oversight of the department of agricultures implementation of the 2018 farm bill. A principle duty of this committee is to ensure that the department had the authority and resources to provide the agriculture producers with the necessary tools to feed a troubled and hungry world as well as this country. But the responsibility of the committee and the usda does not stop there and it is critical as Partnership Supports businesses and the electric cooperatives and telecom providers, schools and clinics and the product manufa
Acknowledge forgiveness. Weir imperfection as human beings. The law is imperfect. At 10 00 p. M. Eastern, former Ambassador Nikki Haley with her book, with all due respect. Watch on cspan2. U. S. Senators wanted to know if the 2018 farm bill is being implemented properly. Agriculture, nutrition and Forestry Committee members talk to farmers. Rural Utility Service officials and Healthcare Industry leaders about issues impacting Rural Communities including access to Rural Broadband, Water Infrastructure and Health Care Services and agricultural production. Good morning. I call this on committee to forestry to order and its continued eversight of the department of agricultures implementation of the 2018 farm bill. A principle duty of this committee is to ensure that the department had the authority and resources to provide the agriculture producers with the necessary tools to feed a troubled and hungry world as well as this country. But the responsibility of the committee and the usda doe
Captioning performed by vitac families in Rural Communities are also concerned about access to health care. Especially with the Mental Health and Opioid Crisis taking a devastating toll on small towns. We address this head on through expanded telemedicine to provide critical treatment for those who suffer from addiction and mental illness. To ensure that every family has safe Drinking Water, we prioritized rural Water Infrastructure investments for small towns. Rural communities need strong locally owned businesses and good highpaying jobs. Rural Small Business investments are critical to creating jobs, promoting entrepreneurship and revitalizing main street. In michigan where we make things and grow things, agriculture and manufacturing are both at the heart of the economy. Thats why we created opportunities to support bio based manufacturing. Companies are creating new products from americangrown crops. We also provided permanent funding for value added agriculture grants to help far
Appreciation more than most on the panel for having that happen, but we need to try to get this built into expectations for people who are currently working that this was an outdated concept a generation ago, maybe two generations ago. That is why we need to make accommodation to existing disability programs are others. But the vast majority of people in their 60s can work. The expectation has been that this is a normal and reasonable retirement age. It is one that is way out voted. Again, in regards to medicare, we are not really achieving anything. At the risk of appearing to choose favorites, until that we have time for both of you to come back at them. Speaking of that, we have a second bite at the apple for bob. Thank you. We are all familiar with the statistics. The u. S. Spends on health care than any other developed country. We hear that continuously. I was surprised to hear at a recent conference exactly the reverse is true when it comes to social support spending for lower in
Speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2013, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip each, to five minutes but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Lumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, mr. Speaker. Five years ago if someone asked what a bow tiewearing progressive democrat from oregon and my colleague, ted poe, a cowboy bootwearing conservative republican from texas could agree on, you would have said, not much. Today we are partners in an issue, however, that makes sense regardless of your politics. Ensuring sustainable equitable access of clean water for nearly 800 million wom