hello again, second time to president xi and i think they were dedicating an aircraft carrier at fort largely by the united states. thank you very much, everybody. all right, thank you. please start making your way toward the door. >> this week, the white house did not release a presidential weekly address. representative marcia fudge of ohio delivered the democratic weekly address. she gave her reaction to the u.s. house rejecting the farm

bill on friday by a vote of 198-to 13. hi, i'mge: congresswoman marcia fudge. i represent ohio's 11th district. i am honored to give this week's democratic address. to address an issue that will impact americans in communities large and small. i had the privilege of representing northeast ohio on the house agriculture committee. i serve as the ranking member of the subcommittee on conservation . house has know, the rejected the committee's hallmark legislation, the farm bill just today. my fellow democrats and fight unanimously opposed this bill and we have spoken about it passionately, both in washington and in our communities for months. we have received a lot of questions. we hear a great many concerns from farmers, community advocates, and a broad range of

stakeholders impacted by our nation's food and farm policy spirit we project this farmville. we demand more for our farmers and are rural and urban communities and our nations have great. we can do so much more for them. we will not settle for a bill that under delivers on all levels. it is a congressional failure. we project this farm bill because it fails our farmers. .arm income is down 52% crop prices are down 40%. land values are down 20%. farm crisis is weakening rural communities across my home state of ohio and nationwide. we are in the middle of a storm. with the president's reckless actions on trade and his broken promises, on renewable fuse like biodiesel and ethanol, it will get much worse. the republican farmville does not make the needed improvement to the farm safety net to account for the growing

emergency facing farm entry. further, the bill offers only a lukewarm commitment to trade. fails to increase investments in programs like the market access program, which helps trade association cooperatives, at small businesses build commercial export markets. billeject this farm because it would worsen's hunger. the bill cuts more than $20 billion from snap. it would kick to it at 65,000 children out of the free school breakfast and lunch programs. it would eliminate benefits for 400,000 households, almost one million hungry americans overall. it would waste billions on redundant and unproven training bureaucracies that are states have told us that they cannot operate effectively. it would create so many barriers that hungry families would be forced to give up seeking the help they need. the republicans called this self selection. i call it engineered failure.

hopes that with enough red tape, our hungry neighbors will simply give up and go away. that may leave the republicans with a clear conscious, but it keeps me up at night. we reject this farm bill because it doesn't do enough to strengthen rural communities. it adds barriers to delivery of world broadband. orfails to fund scholarships develop programs for the next generation of leaders. it increases competition for a small pool of world development resources. and it eliminates key programs that help us achieve energy efficiency and independence. we reject this farm bill because it neglects conservation. if could not be more critical than in the lake erie watershed that i represent. farmers, ranchers, and environmental advocates work collaboratively to keep our soil

and water clean. the republican farm bill strips on the state hundred million dollars from federal conservation-- programs. it is unconscionable here at this farm bill is not good enough. had emma crispin at the table when the bill was written, we could have made it better. but we were kept in the dark until the last minute and then pushed away by the republicans ideological crusade. takingask why we are not this opportunity to make the bill better, we are. givingg no we are republicans another chance to come back to the negotiation table and join us in crafting a farm bill that actually works for the people it is supposed to serve. i hope they take that opportunity. there is no reason we have to go down this road. we can turn around and work together to make this bill better. it all starts with a willingness

to put ideology and partisanship aside and sit down together. we are willing, if they are. sunday night, on afterward. herb book natural causes. she is interviewed by new york times science reporter natalie and your. jobs ofis one of the being old. passing the torch. taking what you know and have done oracle pushed or want done and passing it announcer: watch afterwards" sunday night at 9:00 p.m. c-span2's book tv. on thursday, house intelligence committee ranking member adam schiff of california, missouri senator roy blunt, and house speaker paul ryan set down to