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is over five hours. welcome everyone, i want to thank all of you for joining today s hearing. the committee will now come to order. after a brief opening remarks, members will receive testimony from our witnesses and then the hearing will be open to questions. good morning. i d like to make my opening statement and first i want to thank our house agriculture committee staff for pulling together this important and historic hearing. i want to thank each of my committee members and, of course, our witnesses. for appearing today before the committee. now, we are holding this very critical hearing to discuss cattle markets, concentration and the meatpacking industry. may i also remind everyone to mute yourselves and so we don t have noise interference. we are holding this critical hearing, very important, to discuss cattle markets, concentration in the meatpacking industry and allegations that the big four meatpackers have partaken in on practices that have driven down pri ....