nearly half the service of service, pat has chaired all of these committees, the agricultural committee, the judiciary committee and the appropriation committee. this photo was taken in 2015 when then chairman leahy presented me and engraved gavel as i prepared to take the helm of the judiciary committee. by the size of this gavel he is firmly holding in his hands i'm awful glad senator leahy and i get along so well. although we do not always the eye to i on politics, we found common ground on issues that matter. we respect each other's views and barriers and build consensus based on mutual trust. we have served many years together in the agricultural committee. senator leahy added tens of thousands of acres to the green mountain national forest as one of the few people on earth who can explain the federal milk marketing orders and boy did he go to bat for the northeast united states dairy farmers. senator leahy has cultivated expertise in foreign affairs. was recognized here at home and around the world. he has leveraged his leadership to help and export of anti- personal landmines and

that's what the senate agriculture committee started to look at today. the first hearing on this ftx collapse you might ask why the agriculture committee, they have jurisdiction over commodities markets, financial derivatives, and they want more authority to examine platforms like ftx. >> somehow 2% of u.s. customers have exposure to ftx. folks will find a way to get exposure to offshore entities or activities even if it's prohibited in the u.s. and we have to do something about that. >> ftx is in bankruptcy, and the former ceo is accused of transferring $10 billion from his platform to fund risky bets. also faces an investigation by the sec and justice department. the collapse of the crypto exchange means it could owe up to a million creditors money, major financial firms to investors who handed over a few thousand dollars. >> do you have a plan to get us our money back, who is on our side, why are you not in jail? >> bankruptcy courts tried to unravel the mess. john ray has taken over as ceo and says he has never seen such a complete failure of corpora

been a great chairman of the agriculture committee. and now as we all know, he has done an outstanding job as chairman of the appropriations committee along with senator shelby in the -- in the middle of the night, i gather they finally finished this omnibus bill, and we thank them very much for that. as i think we have heard, senator leahy is known internationally for his efforts to ban the export and the use of land mines. and that in fact has saved the lives of god knows how many people and prevented the maiming of many, many more. we thank senator leahy for that. we thank him for the work that he has accomplished and ending the use of these terrible weapons and also the creation of the leahy war victims fund to get relief for those harmed by these terrible weapons. beyond that, senator leahy very importantly worked to pass what has become known as the leahy law, a human rights law to prohibit the u.s. from providing equipment and training to foreign military suspected of gross human rights violations. nbltions sense, he is -- in tha

now lawmakers are tries to distance themselves from him look at the agriculture committee which is themittee holding the hearing. sam bankman-fried has given to two top lawmakers. debbie stabenow and jon boozman. they are donating the money to charity. five other committee members got cash from sam bankman-fried. john hoven will send it to whatever reimbursement program set up and dick durbin and teen tina smith will give away to the non-profit but cory booker has not responded to multiple emails and he brushed off the question when we asked about it in person. in the interview with andrew ross sorkin yesterday, sam bankman-fried defended his donations. >> i wasn't viewing it as a partisan exercise. most of this was not donating to one party to beat the other one p in the general elections here. >> reporter: frank, he said he spent most of the money in primaries and focus was on p pandemic politics. >> andrew actually asked him were you trying to buy influence. his answer doesn't matter for today's hearing. the question is are these senators going to face questions or possibly congress

he chaired several committees including agriculture, judiciary and most recently, appropriations. he gave a farewell speech on the senate floor with just a few days left before his retirement. sen. leahy: there are some things we experience in life that we can never prepare for, no matter how hard we try. embarking on a life with the person you love is one. having, raising and loving a child is another. and then there is this one today. i have been here 48 years. perhaps to the dismay of hundreds of distinguished presiding officers, i have delivered many floor statements. some more eloquent than others. some less. but i have never delivered a speech like this. and i so appreciate all of you indulging me. my friends and colleagues, marcelle and i have such warm and lasting memories of so many who have served in this chamber, now and through many years. including mentors from the first day i arrived here like republican senator bob stafford, he was our state's senior senator when i arrived here. i watched him in awe but he was the person who looked me in the eye and said to this 34-

gathered together again and really struck up a friendship and then we both were on the house agriculture committee and the very first bill i think either of us ever introduced was this very exciting bill about wheat germ. and so we -- i often was asked, what was the first bill i ever introduced? and it was a wheat disease bill. but roy and i got it done, and it went on to real i -- and we went on to form a wonderful friendship ever since. i was really excited then when he then joined us in the united states senate. and as many people know, in addition to our having led the bills on community health centers, we have partnered together on a new concept of community beverly health clinics -- behavioral health clinics. is that started ten years ago, and we stood on the floor of the senate when we first introduced the bill and talked about how president john f. kennedy had introduced -- had actually signed the last law he ever signed -- the last act he ever signed, 1963, was an act to create community mental health centers. and the idea was to close at that time what they called asylums and give people

jackie: today senate agriculture committee has the chairman of the cftc in.ding a hearing. they're asking questions about regulation. i thought this was an interesting twist for two reasons. number one, why aren't you questioning sam bankman-fried or maybe the justice department or the u.s. attorney's office is planning to do that? we don't know. but number two, he allegedly supported legislation that was proposed to have the cftc regulate crypto instead of the sec. and the speculation there is that the cftc would have been a little bit of an easier mark for them versus the sec who might have been a little stricter. seems like everything that this man did was very calculated, very thought out, including the donations that he made to different senators campaigns and we've got a full screen of some of their photos there. you can see here both republicans and democrats, evan, but you imagine some of these people are going to be deciding his fate. you think about hunter biden and his china dealings, people saying well the president could potentially be compromise

the senate agricultural committee seeking to get to the bottom of the ftx collapse. regulators said their authority was limited to dig in to what the platform was engaged in. according to sbf, this all happened because of his lack of oversight. he said i think there's something maybe even deeper wrong here, which i wasn't even trying. i wasn't spending any time or effort trying to manage risk on ftx. i think i got a little cocky. i mean, charles, imagine hearing that if you lost thousands, millions and billions. that's the answer he gives? that's wild. >> charles: the way the media fawned over him in silicon valley, maybe he did get cocky. thanks. ftx founder bankman-fried getting the platform to speak out. >> i think this is a big failure on the part of "new york times" to give the gentleman like sbf a stage alongside mark zuckerberg and president zelensky. we know what he's done. we know what actions he's taken. we know the crimes he's committed. he should be behind bars. doesn't make sense to me. >> charles: to jackie deangelis. not only did he get the stage, jack

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i'll share something easily forgotten, but willing i searnd -- but something i learned on the agriculture committee. i once overheard someone say in the cloakroom that they had been out driving in the middle of nowhere. i thought, if you're one of the people who live there, you know it is the middle of somewhere. that was a bit of a brainstorm. for years i've been traveling when the senate recesses to try to understand the world a little better. traveled to build some relationships with other leaders from other countries, allies and adversaries alike. and from that very first codel onward, i found that almost without fail when senators of both parties traveled together, their partisan differences dull and their shared perspective grows. you see a country and you see each other -- you see the country through each other's eyes, not just your own. so dick lugar and i came up with a new idea. let's have a codel here at home in the united states to help senators understand the rural states, whether, north, south, east or west, to make it clear that everywhere was somewhere and nowhere was just a place o

how could the big corporations say we can't survive without conventional agriculture? committee or not? no, i'm a b i. so dyllis i'll, as dante, sort of design this, we used to use a lot of fertilizers, fungicides, insecticides, everything. the transnational corporations gave us some data dealing so when we 1st switched organic farming production dropped 50 or 60 percent. but kathy will say when berlin at stabilize and is now on the upswing, hollywood and they own went on the plan plan every year. little by little our coffee harvest increases m l like before, where we'd have a good yield one year and a bad one. the next years he and daniel had a backup oak chill that he vinitez wants to achieve. even more. he striving to convince other coffee farmers in the region of this method. oh, here 2 in south western germany pioneering work is happening. i. if he has he vis here it looks pretty desolate. a bunch of thistles in hair are edge. they made a, there's a sample, it's due to the weather over here, but we don't spray so we have to put up with the weeds. liam kern among the undergr

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gathered together again and really struck up a friendship and then we both were on the house agriculture committee and the very first bill i think either of us ever introduced was this very exciting bill about wheat germ. and so we -- i often was asked, what was the first bill i ever introduced? and it was a wheat disease bill. but roy and i got it done, and it went on to real i -- and we went on to form a wonderful friendship ever since. i was really excited then when he then joined us in the united states senate. and as many people know, in addition to our having led the bills on community health centers, we have partnered together on a new concept of community beverly health clinics -- behavioral health clinics. is that started ten years ago, and we stood on the floor of the senate when we first introduced the bill and talked about how president john f. kennedy had introduced -- had actually signed the last law he ever signed -- the last act he ever signed, 1963, was an act to create community mental health centers. and the idea was to close at that time what they called asylums and give people

in his nearly half century of service, pat has chaired all these committees, the agriculture committee, the judiciary committee, and the appropriations committees. this photo was taken in 2015 when then-chairman leahy presented me an engraved gavel as i prepared to take the helm of the judiciary committee. biff the size of this gavel, he's firmly holding in his hands, i'm awful glad that senator leahy and i get along so well. although we don't always see eye to eye on politics, we found common ground on issues that matter. we respect each other's views and values and build consensus based on mutual trust. we've served many years together in the agriculture committee. senator leahy added tens of thousands of acres to the green mountain national forest as one of the few people on earth who can explain the federal milk marketing orders. and, boy, did he go to bat for the northeast united states dairy farmers. senator leahy has cultivated expertise in foreign affairs that's recognized here at home and around the world. he's leveraged his leadership to help ban export of land mines and secu

printed is bringing porta congresswoman, on the house homeland security committee, and health agriculture committee as well, congresswoman, thank you very much for being with us and happy new year. but let me be skeptic here's the administration that is supposed to an end to enforce the laws, congress is supposed to pass the laws are you going to achieve anything on the border if the biden administration doesn't want to enforce the laws are already on the books. >> a happy new year to you as well jon and i know that is skeptical as ours loss of americans out there, we see this administration completely disregard the rule of law in the first two years that's exactly what the founding fathers envisioned as far as a check and balance that we have amongst our government and what you will see out of the republican but house is us actually checking the administration and enforcing our pursestrings that we have control of and so i thank you so much as the biden administration want to talk a big game, and slow roll the progress toward securing the border, the end of the day, they after a member that we act

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users, close quote, earlier this month cftc chairman suggested in testimony before the senate agriculture committee that 2% of funds housed at ftx.com were from u.s. individuals. confirm whether there were u.s. individuals or persons, customers of ftx.com? mr. ray: yes. we found there is a small number of u.s. customers that had engaged -- mr. huizenga: is 2% small? less or more. mr. ray: we don't have those numbers on an investor bay sis we have it on a customer basis. less than a couple hundred. mr. huizenga: it could amount to billions. billions of dollars that was in there. at least it could be millions or hundreds of thousands we don't know that number or do we? mr. ray: i don't know that number. billions would sound -- mr. huizenga: you mentioned there was bills in it. billions in it. mr. ray: we don't have an accounting of what those particular customers had. mr. huizenga: will determining this be part of your work through this bankruptcy process? mr. ray: absolutely. mr. huizenga: will part of your work be determining which assets belong to which is customers? u.s. customers of ftx.com? mr.

joining us rights now is florida congresswoman, house homeland security committee member and agriculture committee to see you. finally we get pushback from republicans in the senate. can you tell us where we are right now in the omnibus and the poeen shale for a government shutdown -- potential for a government shutdown. >> good morning. it's good to see you. maria. it's been a late night. i'm sure you see the bags under my eyes. to your point, like you said, mike lee and some conservative republicans in the senate are pushing back with the title 42 amendment. what we need is a vote on the amendment. what chuck shymore is trying to do is -- schumer is trying to do is file cloture. that a stops the clock. i think personally that they will ultimately fail because what we need truthfully is a short-term cr to get us into the majority. we have a mandate from the american people. this is nothing more than a power grab by nancy pelosi to extend her speakership into the end of next year. this is her last hu hurrah and e fact you're hearing from democrats in the senate that they the house will not pass a

and i serve on the agriculture committee as well and look forward to that process. >> well, i appreciateve got to get that ski on. before i let you go, i want to get a little bit more into the political weeds a bit. and get your thoughts on the possible shakeup on the democratic party primary calendar, ahead of 2024. president biden's plan would strip new hampshire of its first in the nation primary status. i have to admit, i'm going to say, i'm straight-up biased about this. i applaud this, i've been looking for it for sometime now, even as national chairman, advocating these kinds of changes to our primary system, which i think has grown stagnant and actually foments a lot of the extremism. but that's me. not you. what, what can you say, tell us, about your thoughts on this? and what is the case to be made for keeping the system the way it is? >> well, i'm not opposed to change, michael. and i think you know that iowa will drop out of the first caucus spot. what i think is is it's a complex puzzle with a simple solution. it's not an either or, it's a both and solution. and what's that

area, additional funds have been allocated to support farmers in agricultural machinery lending, said the first deputy chairman of the committee on agricultural issues. vladimir plotnikov, as a result of all this joint work, this year's record harvest of grain has become a lot, and today we have already talked about the measures that are being taken to compensate for each ton of grain sold, payments are already being made in the second tranche. the main thing is not to stop and go out successfully answer the fourth if trans will be needed to ensure that in all regions all agricultural producers receive such support, it is necessary to maintain passive areas, said the chairman of the committee on agricultural issues. vladimir kashin offered to hold parliamentary hearings. on this topic, the speaker of the state duma supported the proposals in plans to do this in the forest by inviting representatives of the regions of relevant departments and control of supervisory authorities maria burkova lanasyan to melikyan mikhail guborenko parliamentary hour in the second part of our program, watch together to resist challenges and threat

essentially failed the first vote with nancy pelosi then did a bunch of bribes like house agricultural committeeolin ferguson and turned them around that we l would expect the house speaker to do so it passes the house that was june of 2009 a lot of time passes and now harry reid announces as the democratic majority leader they would notot even put the cap and trade bill to a vote. that's important to mention because at that point they failed but the climate agenda legislatively. the obama administration decided to do executive orders, bypass democracy also party rule authoritarian rule in china was praised by those on the left including tom friedman from "the new times" at this is what's necessary without the messiness and hassle of democracy. justin trudeau actually said this is a great admiration for the dictatorship. so obama move this in that direction and then the whole thing was blown not when chuck came in but then biden administration never had a town hall orr constituent wmeeting or nothing. why? everything changed innh march 2020 which isbo where the great reset book comes in and i ha

senate agriculture committee seeking to get to the got of why ftx collapsed, pushed more regulation inhe industry. according to sbf, this happened not because of fraud but lack of oversight. i want to end with this quote, he said in the interview i think there is something maybe even deeper wrong there which i wasn't even trying, like i wasn't spending anytime or effort trying to manage risk on ftx i think i got a little cocky. can you imagine, cheryl, being a customer that lost thousands and that's what you hear is the answer? cheryl: millions, kelly, millions of dollars being lost especially with the overseas customers which he also said doesn't think that the international customers are ever going to see anything. then he also said, this is my favorite, kelly, well u.s. customers, they should be able to withdraw their money. okay. right. kelly o'grady, great report. you've been doing a grade job on this story, thank you. all right. here's the question, right? is sam bankman-fried actually trying to build a defense by doing these interviews? let's get the read from former federal pro

, when we were talking with senator mike braun about the ftx hearings, nine members of the agriculture committeegn donations from ftx, among those was mitch mcconnell, john thune, and joni ernst, didn't know what they did with the donations. six other members had given them back. senator ernst's office says she has given the money to charities in iowa, including food banks. so she now joins the other six who are saying they gave the money to charities as well. >> sandra: and some you know, one way to do it, some critics say it should go into a fund to go back to victims, some have lost millions of dollars and others life savings. and news out of the supreme court a moment ago, the supreme court said it would hold arguments in february on the merits of the biden student loan forgiveness program, enforcement remains on hold, so that just in, john. >> john: and meantime, the president keeps getting around what's going on in the court by just delaying the deadline to restart student loan payments. so, we'll see who wins out in this argument eventually. >> sandra: all right. that does it for us. than

users, however, earlier this month, the chairman suggested in testimony before the senate agriculture committee that 2% of funds housed at ftx.com were from u.s. individuals. and you confirm whether there were u.s. individuals or persons , in fact, customers of ftx.com? mr. ray: we found that there was a small number of u.s. customers that had engaged in -- rep. huizenga: his 2% small in your estimation? mr. ray: we don't have those kind of numbers on investor basis, we have it on a customer basis. we are talking about less than a couple hundred. rep. huizenga: but it could amount to billions. or at least it could be millions or hundreds of thousands. do you know that number? mr. ray: i don't know that number. billions would sound very very -- rep. huizenga: you had mentioned that there were billions in it. i'm giving you the range. mr. ray: clearly we don't have an accounting of what those particular customers have. rep. huizenga: will determining this be part of your work through this bankruptcy process? mr. ray: absolutely. rep. huizenga: will part of your work determining which assets belon

i serve on the agricultural committee, i look forward to that process. >> i appreciate that caucus, you but before i let you go, i want to get a little bit more into the political weeds a bit. and get your thoughts on the possible shakeup of the democratic primary calendar ahead of 2024, president biden's plan was to strip new hampshire of its first in the nation primary status. i need to admit, i'm straight-up bias about this, i applaud this, for sometime now even as chairman advocating, these type of changes in our primary system which has grown stagnant, and actually ferments a lot of the extremism. but that's me, not you, what could you say and tell us about the thoughts on, this and what is the case we made for keeping the system the way that it is? >> i'm not opposed to change, michael, you know that iowa will drop out of the first caucus spot. what i think it's a complex puzzle with a simple solution. it's not an either or, or it's a both hands solution and what's that about is that of course we want to lean in and welcome the participation of black voters, latino voters to our p

vote, nancy pelosi, and they did bribes and forced and tricked the people like the house agricultural committee colin ferguson, forced-- turned him around and the pork and house speaker to do to get people to come in line. it passes the house and that i think was in june of 2009. a lot of time passes and 2010 comes around and harry reid announces, then majority democratic leader they weren't going to put the cap and trade bill to a vote and that's important to mention, at that point they failed, with their climate legislation in the obama administration, legislatively. and a forerunner after covid, they decided to do executive orders and by pass democracy and i was talking about the china-fication and one party authoritarian rule was praised by those on the left. and the tom freedman, new york times, they could impose what's necessary in the country without the messiness and hassle of democracy and justin trudeau said that this is a basic-- great admiration for china's basic dictatorship when it comes to climate and obama moved us and trump blew up the agenda. biden came in, green new deal came

the first hearing specifically on the ftx collapse earlier this afternoon by the senate agricultural committee. they have jurisdiction over the trading commission. the chairman of the cftc was up here testifying earlier today. he testified to senators that it's going to take months to understand the scope of this ftx failure. he says his agency needs more authority to regulate all of this business. >> we have no basis or no reason to sort of pierce through the entity and farther asking questions. >> he says his agency did not receive any whistle-blower tips about problems at ftx. former ftx ceo sam bankman-fried is accused of transferring funds from ftx to another firm to finance risky bets. those went bad. the whole operation collapsed. bankman-fried says he never tried to commit fraud. ftx is in bankruptcy, has $8 billion in shortfalls and it says it's may owe more money to more than a million creditors from major investment firms to americans that say they invested their entire life savings. bankman-fried faces investigations from the fcc and justice department. he says he has less than $10

right now the senate agriculture committee is holding a meeting on the collapse of the crypto currency comes a day after the company's founder and former ceo talked to "the new york times" about what went wrong. >> i made a lot of mistakes. there are things would give anything to do over again. i didn't ever try to commit fraud on anyone. i was shocked by what happened this month. and reconstructing it, were there things i wish i had done differently. >> we have hr from capitol hill. how did we end up at this point? >> so that is what everybody is trying to figure out right now. as you can see, that committee hearing is going on right behind me. but essentially it boils down to this. ftx is one of the largest crypto current sit, changes. customers could go to buy and sell asits and the allegation is that sam bankman-frooed used those customer deposits to fund risky bets at a related firm, which was a hedge fund. now as you heard there, sam says he never knowingly comingled customer assets, certainly, that's a question that lawmakers, law enforcement are trying to get to the bottom of,

when nancy, then they did a whole bunch of bribes forced and they twisted people like house agricultural committee colin ferguson for, a minnesota forced them turned around all the pork, what you'd expect the house speaker to do to get people to come in line. it passes the house. and that was, i think, june of 2009. well a lot of time passes in 2010 rolls around. harry reid announces then democrat majority leader that they weren't going to even put the cap and trade bill to a vote and important to mention, because at that point they failed at their climate agenda and the obama administration legislatively. so what the obama administration tried to do and was a sort of a forerunner of happened under covid they decided do executive orders they decided to bypass democracy. i actually was talking about the china ification. the idea of one the rule authoritarian rule in china was literally praised by many on the left un climate chief christina forget including tom friedman, the new york saying that they could impose what's necessary in a country without the messiness and hassle of democracy just in. tr

having traveled within chairman of the agricultural committee mike conaway several years ago to some of the third world countries where food is scarce and extreme poverty like most have never seen is the norm, it's easy to understand how imperative this program is for so many children who would likely never have a nutritious meal. just as important and because of how the program was crafted, the mcgovern-dole program provides an opportunity to learn, laying the foundation for an improved life through knowledge and then achievement. for many of these children who come from very poor means, this meal provided at school is quite frankly the only good meal of the day. it's also important to recognize the support of the american agricultural producers who make this program possible. america's farm families have produced more than 1.3 million metric tons of agricultural commodities for donation. doing their part in reducing hunger and improving primary education in countries around the globe. congress must continue to lead by example in tackling hunger and poverty around the world for year

welcome again to the senate agricultural committee. we are so proud of the work throughout the system. the considerable need even in systems such as the university on arkansas where they are fast can you walk us through your specific needs and what research and outcomes are we potentially losing by not investing in infrastructure across the land-grant institutions? the immediate needs we have buildings we are trying to conduct research. when we talk about what we mess i can say almost every university has missed opportunities with the infrastructure that exists and personally we had two faculty members in the position that we lost as a result. where we cannot get the relative humidity over 80% to try to make this work but there are several opportunities that we are missing. opportunities to be competitive and folks funding that research anticipates that we will have the facilities necessary to conduct the research and conduct at a high level and at that point we are missing that opportunity based on where the facilities are so we've tr

they are why i served on the house agriculture committee every year since i've been in congress. our 90,000 labor households. that's why i fought to make sure we passed bipartisan, once-in-a-lifetime, generational investment in rebuilding our infrastructure. and our working men and women. the people i met at every supermarket saturday who took a moment to chat in the grocery store aisles. and during 120 shifts which is what we call our own job shadow version. during my shifts i was a baker, a cattle auctioneer, a tow boat operator and i drove a zamboni. it showed what they need from us in washington. like when sarah miller reached out to me. the mother of two young children, sarah's drinking water had lead in it. but in order for her to afford to fix it, she would have had to drop out of nursing school. so i helped the city secure $4 million in grants, and sarah became one of several hundred families to have their solid lead water pipes replaced. this is me working on replacing water pipes. listening to the stories of the people i serve has helped guide the work that i've done in

the senate agriculture committee will hold the first hearing on the collapse sam bankman-fried has roughly7 of 22 members debbie stabenow got the most in contributions. another $20,000 for her victory fund john boozman also with $5,000. others got cash from sam bankman-fried. john hoven will send it to a reimbursement program set up dick durbin and tina smith will give the money away to the non-profit cory booker has not responded to emails and brushed off the question when we asked about it in person. sam bankman-fried will not testify at the hearing today the sole witness is the chairman of the cftc rostin benham. current ceo john wray is in the hot seat for that one. i asked patrick mchenry if sam bankman-fried would testify at that hearing he told me, he has no update to share as of now. back to you. >> that's cory booker, who also wrote the letter of character for elizabeth holmes >> the kimono. we know what is going on when they open the situation. the chairman -- both chair people investigating the investigation -- both has contributions? >> reporter: yeah. i will say this was somet

agriculture. the flexibility that gives us in the infrastructure we leave for best and brightest are things i know this committee believes them. >> thank you very much. i mentioned in my opening that we have secured $185 million in our last farm bill for the foundation for food and agriculture research. this is something senator robertson by initiating a farm bill is a public-private effort for research and health care. this foundation has been doing that and bring a 41 grants including an important one on management for her cherry growers. could you talk a little bit more about how the unique model of leveraging public and private funds is something that is helpful in this arena? >> yes. i've been a part of farr and a board member. i was fortunate enough to call the original members who served on the board. i remember the spreadsheet of all the names i had suggested for the board and i've also worked closely with the organization over the past couple ofen tll years. as undersecretary working with to benefit onr their convening power and their opportunities to bridge the gap between public and private organizati

i work on the agriculture committee. but to solve that problem is not just our food and nutrition programs its others to. it is hosing, it is a decent wage, so sometimes these issues intersect the whole bunch of other issues. the farm bill in and of itself is, you can't really say that it is just one topic. it covers a whole range of things, not just our farmers, but it covers our nutrition programs, it covers a whole bunch of stuff. so i get this idea that people want to simplify things, and make things easier to digest. for people who may be watching, but if you really want to solve some of these problems, sometimes it requires bringing in other topics. again, not to confuse things. but to actually effectively legislate and get something done. >> otherwise, you are talking about doing nine different bills when you could do one bill for it. so, as you figure out with your leadership what that -- how you narrowed down these topics, i mean, i think we need to be cognizant that solving problems doesn't always been until on

area, additional funds were allocated to support agrarians in agricultural machinery lending, said the first deputy chairman of the committeeultural issues. vladimir plotnikov as a result of all this joint work, this year’s record harvest of grain has become a lot, and today we have already talked about the measures that this compensation is being made for each ton of grain sold. payments are already being made in the second tranche. the main thing is not to stop and go further answer the fourth, if a route is needed in order for all agricultural producers to receive such support in all regions, it is necessary to preserve the sown areas, the chairman of the committee on agrarian issues noted. vladimir kashin offered to hold parliamentary hearings. on this topic , the speaker of the state duma supported the proposals in the plans. it's in february with an invitation representatives of the regions of relevant departments and control over supervisory bodies maria burkova lanasyan to melikyan mikhail guborenko, parliamentary hour. in the second part of our program, watch the details of the international conference of the cis c

underrepresented communities to the agriculture profession and the flexibility that gives us, the infrastructure we need for the best and brightest, i notice committee believes in that strongly. >> thank you very much. i mentioned in my opening we secured one hundred $85 million in the last farm bill for the foundation for food and agriculture research, this is something senator roberts and i created in the farm bill, as a public-private effort as we do public-private research and healthcare, we've not done that in the past on agriculture so this foundation has been doing that and appreciate 341 grants to date including an important one that michigan state did on pest management for cherry growers, could you talk a little bit more about how the unique model of leveraging public and private funds is something that is helpful in this arena? >> i have been a part of it since the inception, i was fortunate enough to call the original members who served on the board. member the spreadsheet with all the names, working closely with the organization over the past couple years and as undersecretary working to partner whenever possible to benefit on convening