We can and hold these families in our prayers. Thank you. Back live now on capitol hill where the House Appropriations committee is returning from its lunch break. They continue work on 2021 a spending bill. Live coverage here on cspan2. Mistaken at the best of times. They are unconscionable in the midst of a pandemic. I want to remind my colleagues that foodstamp spending is a powerful anti recession tool and has previously been estimated that for each dollar spent from benefits a dollar 70 is generated in economic activity. Let me say thank you again to chairman bishop, Ranking Member and their leadership and other areas of the bill. Their strong investments to ensure the continued availability and safety of the nation food supply as well as language designed to protect the health and safety of workers in our meatpacking plants and our poultry plants as well as the farmworkers who are out in the field every single day. I thank you very, very much that all of the attention youve paid
Good morning, i call this hearing to order. We will hold a hearing on the impact of federal environmental regulations and policies on American Farming and ranching communities. The discussion here today is not about the value of environmental regulations but about how some federal regulations can be inflexible, antiquated, duplicative and ultimately harmful to american agriculture, a critical part of our nations economy. Members of this committee should work to ensure environmental laws are strong and effective without being overly burdensome. This is often a difficult task. The United States is blessed that our ecosystems require different kinds of stewardship to remain healthy. In wyoming we have an abundance of prosperity and in forest, a variety of mountain habitats. Wyoming ranchers and farmers are familiar with the ecosystem and its need. This is where they work, live and invest their energy. Farmers and ranchers are the original stewards and understand landscapes and watersheds
We use, they work in correlation with road temps. The pavement temperatures are really what it is all about. Whatever we do get. The city of des moines estimates the warmer weather saved the department at least 50thousand dollars this month because they havent had to plow yet. Lets now head down to Jennifer Mcdermed at the science center. She has the latest on when and how much snowfall we can expect in the metro tomorrow. Crews in the metro are picking up the pieces from last weeks storm today. This garage on watrous avenue near Jefferson Elementary School is being cleaned up today. It was destroyed during last weeks severe weather, which knocked down trees, damaged roofs and blew windows out of homes last week in parts of the state. We are getting ready for another big afternoon here at channel 13 as the iowa forums continue. Donald trump joins our political director dave price live for the third hour long event today. This forum will focus on job creation. It is at the dmacc campus
Will vote on sometime next week. I also predict, mr. President , that this is the last farm bill that wont be driven by the new realities of people who want their food needs met in new ways. Those food needs are going to be greater, but were going to be less concerned, i would expect, five years from now about farm surpluses and what happens if we grow too much than we are about how we meet the growing food needs of the world, partly because of the population, partly because people once they get better food just want better food. Once you have the variety of food, once you have the experience of better food, nobody wants to go back to the food that they used to have. And were going to see that driving this debate over more over the next few years than we have up until now. Agriculture in many states, including my state of missouri, the number one industry in the state, 16 of our work force is directly involved in agriculture. It continues in state after state. You and i have both heard
Of us that are living on the west coast, this is about the time when the dinner dishes are done, the kids homework is done, theyre in bed. You can actually sit down at your computer and go online and try to figure out what might be the best option for you on an exchange. But were being told that the exchange is going to be down between the time that most alaskans and certainly hawaiians that are time hours five difference instead of the four hours that alaskans are, that are not going to be able to go online and to address it there. Thats one aspect of it, is where we are with the exchanges and what thats going to mean if were still going to continue with the deadlines that have been put in place by the administration in terms of when you have to sign up by and when you may be assessed a fine or a penalty for failure to successfully enroll. I mentioned that on friday there were some 5,600 alaskans actually excuse me. 5,360 alaskans who received discontinuation notices from premiera. Pr