mr. bennet: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from colorado. mr. bennet: thank you, mr. president. i ask that the quorum call be vitiated are. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. bennet: thank you, mr. president. i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to legislative session and be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. bennet: mr. president, i understand there is a bill at the desk and i ask for its first reading. the presiding officer: the clerk will read the title of the bill for the first time. the clerk: h.r. 277, an act to amend chapter 8 of title 5 of united states code and so forth. mr. bennet: i now ask for a second read gd and in order for the -- and in order to place the bill on the calendar, i object to my own request. the presiding officer: objection is heard. the bill will receive its second reading on the next legislative day. mr. bennet: i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today, it stand adjourned u

mr. bennet: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from colorado. mr. net: thank you, madam president. i'm sorry that i didn't have the chance to say thank you to our colleague from connecticut for his speech tonight about loneliness in the united states. i was grateful that he gave it, grateful that he's in the senate, grateful to know that another parent of young kids has the perspective that he has shared tonight, because i think it's so important. strangely enough, i'm here to talk about something similar tonight. well, first, madam president, i'll put it away, because it's not supposed to be on the floor, but i wanted to come here tonight to talk a little bit about this smartphone and the world of social media, the world of machine learning, algorithms and generative a.i. that has now been put at our fingertips. the rise of smartphones and social media is one of the most rapid, profound, and i would argue poorly understood transformations in american life in our entire history. if you had asked me when i was the age of the pages here, when i was gro

bennet: that's what families say to me. is that the stress, the stress, the stress is what it relieved. mr. chairman, i yield back. thank you. and i apologize to my colleague for going over. sen. fetterman: thank you, senator. and especially thank to every one of you, the witnesses today, that came in, to hear from you all today. so thank you. you know, protecting snap and preventing fraud isn't a republican or democrats issue, though. i think everyone agrees on that. it's time for the usda to and state agencies to update their technology security to prevent fraud. i hope -- i would hope we all agree. i intend to strengthen the usda's tools to existing mandate to do so. the usda is already making significant efforts to modernize snap and its nutritional assistance. one of these efforts are updating the thrifty food plan which we have discussed today. this update is a modest investment with a significant impact for working americans who need it. we have to work to protect snap for the 21st century and i look forward to working with my colleagues to getting that done. i heard from one respondent during this hearing

mr. chairman, because the solutions are stirring is right in the face and almost got there last congress. and thanks to senator bennet leadership intensive bipartisan negotiations we were this close to achieving something that has eluded congress for decades and the service that you our panel sedan today for this committee is to illustrate that now is the time. the current situation is untenable for rowers. the current situation is untenable for workers. we have the power in this committee and this congress to act and to build upon a bipartisan framework that exists. and i'll tell you when i talk to growers in georgia, and a proud to represent georgia's extraordinaire agriculture sector, they see it the same way. they support legislation that will give them certainty and stability on and strengthen protection for farm workers because we all know that while the overwhelming majority of growers do the right thing and want to keep bring it back h-2a labors you're after your and build strong relationships with their employees, that there is abuse, that it's unacceptable and that congress can take action to prevent it. op