Congressional Record, House — April 5, 2022, H4159
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This is H4159 of the Congressional Record, House, April 5, 2022, with interleaved columns. An unnamed speaker describes visits with Kansas farmers, saying that farmers want to keep crop insurance in the 2023 farm bill and that agriculture faces workforce shortages, with the views attributed to the speaker. The page records the Pledge of Allegiance, an Announcement by the Speaker pro tempore that the Chair will entertain up to 15 requests for 1-minute speeches on each side of the aisle, and the House standing in recess until noon. Under the heading Supporting Restaurant Revitalization, Mr. Higgins of New York says restaurants have been hit particularly hard during the pandemic.
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April 5, 2022 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4159
and strengthened their opportunity to U.S. rulings and oil and gas drilling do tion 188, the Journal of the last day’s
utilize crop insurance programs, even not live within the confines of the next proceedings is approved.
when conditions are dire. Largely, farm bill, I also recognize that the pro- f
farmers want to keep crop insurance in tections and proper use of America’s
place in the 2023 farm bill. One Kansas resources are vital to the strength of PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
farmer even told us that Congress American food and agriculture. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Will the
needs to ‘‘use a scalpel, not a sledge- The state of agriculture is strong be- gentleman from New Jersey (Mr.
hammer, as we refine crop insurance.’’ cause of the strength of American PAYNE) come forward and lead the
Agriculture’s human resources in- farmers, ranchers, and agriculture pro- House in the Pledge of Allegiance.
clude labor on the farm and employees ducers. Congress has the responsibility Mr. PAYNE led the Pledge of Alle-
at the local Farm Service Agency of- to get them the resources they need to giance as follows:
fice. On the farm, folks are hurting for protect the resources they have to feed, I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the
workers. We visited one of the first fuel, and clothe the world. We must do United States of America, and to the Repub-
feed yards in the State, and the family our job. lic for which it stands, one nation under God,
owners haven’t seen a labor shortage indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
f
with looming retirements this bad
RECESS f
since before the feed yard’s inception
in 1951. Another co-op owner told us The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER
their workforce is down 10 percent with ant to clause 12(a) of rule I, the Chair PRO TEMPORE
more than 70 open positions. declares the House in recess until noon
At the local USDA offices, where The SPEAKER pro tempore. The
today.
Kansans go if they need help from the Chair will entertain up to 15 requests
Accordingly (at 10 o’clock and 36
government, staff is also short. Tradi- for 1-minute speeches on each side of
minutes a.m.), the House stood in re-
tionally, there has been a fully staffed the aisle.
cess.
USDA office in every county in Amer- f
f
ica, but President Biden’s policies have
kept employees at home and turned b 1200 SUPPORTING RESTAURANT
those offices mostly all virtual. I met REVITALIZATION
AFTER RECESS
with farmers who are at a complete (Mr. HIGGINS of New York asked and
loss trying to navigate convoluted gov- The recess having expired, the House was given permission to address the
ernment websites instead of talking was called to order by the Speaker pro House for 1 minute and to revise and
face-to-face with USDA employees. tempore (Mr. AUCHINCLOSS) at noon. extend his remarks.)
There is a workforce shortage in f Mr. HIGGINS of New York. Mr.
every industry, and agriculture is no PRAYER Speaker, restaurants have been hit par-
exception. From the farm to govern- ticularly hard during the pandemic,
ment services for the farm, agriculture The Chaplain, the Reverend Margaret
taking on increasing costs while facing
has been experiencing record employee Grun Kibben, offered the following
huge revenue losses.
turnover due to unnecessary vaccine prayer:
Holy God, set Your covenant before Thanks to the American Rescue
mandates, enhanced unemployment Plan, the Restaurant Revitalization
benefits, and more. us this day. Show us how You have
bound Yourself to us time and again Fund provided $28.6 billion for res-
And in terms of natural resources, we taurants nationwide and delivered over
all know America’s farmers and ranch- throughout history and in our own
lives. We need yet another reminder of $85 million to restaurants in my com-
ers are the original conservationists. munity.
America has vast amounts of natural the promises which You have so gra-
ciously given to Your people. Still, the demand was greater than
resources available to its stewards. The the resources made available by Con-
biggest threat to agriculture’s natural Remind us, too, that You expect of us
not just righteous, exemplary behavior gress, with over 175,000 eligible res-
resources isn’t availability or the taurants that applied for grants
weather, but Federal Government over- but accountability and forgiveness.
You desire not just our knowledge of through the program going entirely un-
reach. funded.
Late last year, President Biden with- scripture and adherence to Your law,
but You desire that we check and re- This week, we have the opportunity
drew the Navigable Waters Protection
check our attitudes, that they remain to fill that gap, support small busi-
Rule, which sought to undo the harm
examples, reflections of Your steadfast nesses, and save jobs by passing the
caused by the Waters of the United
love for all people. Restaurant Revitalization Fund Re-
States rule from 2015, through which
You desire not just that we relish the plenishment Act. I am proud to support
the Federal Government aimed to con-
forgiveness we have found in You, but this bill and encourage my colleagues
trol nearly all bodies of water, regard-
that we share that mercy with each to do the same.
less of their size or connection to larg-
and all we meet, and that we do so with After a long, difficult period of isola-
er waterways. Because of this mess,
the same unbounded, uninhibited grace tion, people are coming together and
farmers and ranchers have had to con-
that You have shown us. going back to restaurants, but we need
duct their business under three dif-
Speak to us louder today, O Lord, to make whole these restaurants that
ferent definitions of what amounts to
that we can’t help but hear that You have lost money based on nothing that
‘‘water’’ in just 6 years.
President Biden has also halted drill- have called us into a marvelous rela- they have done.
ing on Federal lands and halted con- tionship with You that we would then f
struction on the Keystone XL pipeline, be compelled to share with one an-
PUT AMERICANS FIRST
exacerbating the price and shortage of other.
American-made fuel. On our trip, Re- Show us Your will, that we can’t help (Mr. LAMALFA asked and was given
publican leader THOMPSON and I saw a but respond with faithfulness to You permission to address the House for 1
live oil well operated by a company and to the needs of the human family minute and to revise and extend his re-
that produced 60,000 barrels of oil last with whom we are inextricably bound. marks.)
October from 363 active wells, and right We listen. We wait. We pray to You Mr. LAMALFA. Mr. Speaker, last
next door, we saw an ethanol plant this day by the fulfilled promise found week, President Biden announced a de-
ready to supply America with depend- in Your name. cision to repeal one of the best tools
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able liquid fuel if President Biden Amen. our Nation has to deter illegal immi-
would just ditch his unrealistic and ill- f gration, title 42.
timed electric vehicle push. You can’t Title 42 is a public health law that
plow with a Prius. THE JOURNAL authorized U.S. border agents to
While I recognize things like protec- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- promptly send back illegal immigrants
tions against the harmful Waters of the ant to section 11(a) of House Resolu- if they pose a health risk to Americans
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