mr. adrian, i would like to know why we are not saying there is a food shortage period? quit using the word inflation. when we are looking at bird philo, butter chicken, industry, the fields are being slaughtered with rain or drought. why are we not talking about that situation? >> on top of that -- >> it's not just the united states. the russia ukraine conflict is added to the feud started. >> russia invading ukraine, very inappropriately i would add, has complicated everything. ukraine is considered the bread basket of europe. commodities are a worldwide issue. i have to say, even amidst our challenges, the fact that food is deliverable, yes it's more expensive, we are helping feed the world. we are feeding america, and helping feed the world. i think we're in a strong position for that. we color raises a very valid point. there are some shelves that are empty. folks are not able to see the variety at the grocery stores that they would like. without friday, there's less competition. these are dynamics that are not consumer friendly. i hope that we can get this supply c

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mr. adrian smith, i would like to know why we are not saying that there is a food shortage?t using the word inflation when looking at the bird flu, the dead chickens in the industry. fields slaughtered with rain and drought. why are we not talking about that situation? just the united states -- not just the united states but globally. host: and on top of that the russia ukraine conflict. guest: russia invading ukraine has complicated everything. ukraine is considered the bread basket of europe. commodities really are a worldwide issue. i have to say that even amidst the challenges, the fact that food is still available, yes it's more expensive but we are helping feed the world. america helping feed the world, we are in a strong position for that. the caller does raise i think a very valid point that there are some shelves that are empty. folks are not able to see the variety at the three stores they would like and without variety there's less competition. these are dynamics that are not consumer friendly. i hope we can get this i change on track. -- supply chain back on trac

adrian finnegan. this is counting the cost on al jazeera, your weekly look at the world of mr. said economics. this week, an economic meltdown of the fries on cash withdrawals, desperate lebanese depositors holding up the own banks to get access to their life savings. so what's the way out of the financial crisis? also this week, china is owed almost 40 percent of poor countries debt payments this year, and is on the pressure to help strained economies overhaul that credit buttons. so what can beijing do? plus straus threatening zimbabwe crops of raising fears over food insecurity. and bobby, and farmers going back to old falling techniques to cope with extreme weather conditions . ah, the world bank says that lebanon's economic crisis may be one of the free worst in modern times that it's left 1810 people, paw many lebanese people can't afford basic necessities. of those who have life savings in banks can't access them. withdrawals have been limited since the financial meltdown began in 2019, now desperate deposited a robbing banks across the cash strapped country to get hold of their own mon

mr. larson: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, i want to thank my colleagues earl blumenauer, adrian smith, dan kildee, drew ferguson for their work on this bill. i especially want to thank congresswoman delbene for her tireless leadership-in advocating for this issue and bringing members together in a bipartisan manner. for our listeners out there, that isn't as rare a thing as you might think. but when you have exceptional leadership, and when you have the mother -- grandmother to be of an infant on the way, you have a sense of urgency that this congress and this nation desperately needs. i can't thank her enough for her leadership on this as well as my colleagues across the aisle because we all know that the increasing access and lowering costs for importing base powder is especially important, as susan described, for w.i.c. families because we know that means lower costs for working families. this is a prime example of what can happen when we all work together for the common good. nothing could be more important than making sure that suzan delbene future grandchild has appropriate baby formula. i yield back my t