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We take you live to the u. S. Senate where to date lawmakers who will be on a defense programs and policy bill. You are watching live coverage of the senate on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will ohm the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. God of grace and mercy, in these divisive and polarized times, remind us that words have consequences. Help us to remember that we are accountable to you for every idle and careless wor...

The future of agriculture. This is a fitting theme for the secretary to announce something that we have been working on a usda called the agriculture innovation agenda. We are excited to share more with you this morning. I am joined in this room by many of you that are working to shape the future of our agricultural economy. It is important that we take stock, not only of where we are today but also of where we need to go to meet a growing Global Demand with rising standards of living in a time ...

Good morning everybody. If you could please find your seats. I would like to welcome everyone to usdas 96 annual outlook form. The u. S. s oldest annual meeting. Im the deputy secretary of agriculture and is great to see everyone here this morning. This years team is the innovation imperative, shaping the future of agriculture. This is a fitting theme for the secretary to announce something that we have been working on a usda called the agriculture innovation agenda. We are excited to share more...

Outlooks. We will also hear from the usda chief economist at this forum. It is about 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations] good morning, everybody. If you could please find your seat. I would like to welcome everyone to usda 96 annual outlook forum. Usda oldest annual meeting. I am stephen, deputy secretary of agriculture. It is great to see everyone here this morning. This years theme is that innovation imperative. Shaping the future of agriculture. This is a fitting theme for the secretary to ...

I thank my colleagues for all of their work on this issue. It is an indispensable part of the business of this congress this year to pass this legislation. We have to find a way to Work Together before we leave in order to pass this legislation. And i call upon all of my colleagues to Work Together with us. This is as bipartisan as it gets in the United States senate. We have to find a way. I congratulate the gentlelady from louisiana for all of her great work and i yield back. The presiding off...

Sadly, but with confidence and humility, with allegiance to our founders and a heart full of love for america, today i am asking our chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment. In response the white house says it, quote, looks forward to a fair trial in the senate and President Trump lashing out on twitter saying this the do not radical left democrats have Just Announced they are going to seek to g impeach me over nothing. The n good thing is that the republicans have never been more unite...

Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) have introduced a bipartisan bill to amend the farm payment system and ensure taxpayer support is targeted to those actively engaged in farming.

Service, people in rural america, and it will save about a billion dollars a year, but its also going to hurt retailers that need that food service as well. ironically theyre doing this at the same time, removing a lot of people from the program, while providing anywhere between 15 and $25 billion in direct payments for farmers for losses through these tariffs that are taking place with china. i certainly dont object to some of those payments but at a time when were moving the poorest people off...