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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 actio ....
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 actio ....
The chair the gentleman from georgia reserves. The gentleman from maryland is recognized. Mr. Harris thank you very much, mr. Chairman. Whats really harmful is a 2 trillion deficit, not the legislation before us. I yield to the gentleman from ohio, mr. Miller. The chair the gentleman is recognized. For one minute. Mr. Miller i thank my colleague. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I rise today to support a vital amendment included in the en bloc amendment to foster rural skills training and work force development. The amendment i offered with several of my colleagues would restore funding for one of usdas primary rural skills and work force programs at the World Innovation stronger economy also known as rise grant program. As authorized in 2018 farm bill this Work Force Training initiative provides assistance to rural areas to establish job accelerateors to cultivate the growth ....
While we were on the august recess, it was projected that theyd reach trillion, doubling the estimate of we simply cannot continue down this path of spending large sums of money without regard to the fiscal future of our nation. This bill takes the same approach American Families take every day. They simply have to do more with less under the biden economy. American families decide every single day where to cut back spending to pay for whats most important for them. For them, those decisions are difficult. Likewise, we have to make tough, difficult decisions for the good of the nation. This represents 2. 7 billion across discretionary accounts throughout this bill except for the Supplemental Program for w. I. C. With this reduction the fiscal year 2024 agriculture appropriation bills discretionary allocation is 15. 1 billion. By redirecting nearly 7. 5 billion in uno ....
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