Today, House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Angie Craig (MN-02) delivered the following opening statement at a full committee hearing for the purpose of receiving testimony from The Honorable Brooke L. Rollins, Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Watch the full hearing here. [As prepared for delivery.] Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to welcome the Secretary to our Committee hearing t... Read More »
Today, House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Angie Craig (MN-02) delivered the following closing statement at a full committee hearing for the purpose of receiving testimony from the Honorable Brooke L. Rollins, Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Watch the full hearing here. [As prepared for delivery.] Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There was a lot of talk today about how the Trump administ... Read More »
Today, House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Angie Craig (MN-02) delivered the following opening statement at a full committee markup of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025 (H.R. 3633). Watch the full markup here. [As prepared for delivery.] Last year, an estimated 55 million American adults held or used cryptocurrency for financial transactions. And that number is growing annually a... Read More »
Today, House Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology Ranking Member Jill Tokuda (HI-02) delivered the following opening statement at a subcommittee hearing titled “Supporting Farmers, Strengthening Conservation, Sustaining Working Lands.” Watch the full hearing here. [As prepared for delivery.] Good morning, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for convening today’s hearing. A... Read More »
Today, House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Angie Craig (MN-02) delivered the following opening statement at a Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology Subcommittee hearing titled “Supporting Farmers, Strengthening Conservation, Sustaining Working Lands.” Watch the full hearing here. [As prepared for delivery.] I’m pleased to be here with fellow strong advocates for conservation programs. T... Read More »
Today, House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Angie Craig (MN-02) delivered the following opening statement at a full committee hearing titled “American Innovation and the Future of Digital Assets: From Blueprint to a Functional Framework.” Watch the full hearing here. [As prepared for delivery.] Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank the witnesses for coming to Capitol Hill to share their p... Read More »
Analysis from the non-partisan, independent budget office shows Congressional Republicans’ budget cuts will cause higher grocery costs for millions of Americans each month whose food assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will be taken away or reduced. The Congressional Budget Office projects that total cuts to SNAP will total nearly $290 billion in the Republican bill. H... Read More »
Today, House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Angie Craig (MN-02) released the following statement after a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled against President Trump’s worldwide tariffs. “We cannot allow presidents to twist emergency declarations to circumvent the U.S. Constitution, usurp the role of Congress or ignore the courts. I applaud the U.S. Court of Inter... Read More »
Today, House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Angie Craig (D-MN-02) and Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee Ranking Member Don Davis (D-NC-01) introduced the bipartisan Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act of 2025 as original cosponsors with Representatives French Hill (R-AR-02), Glenn “GT” Thompson (R-PA-15), Tom Emmer (R-MN-06), Bryan Steil (R-WI-01), ... Read More »
Today, House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Angie Craig (MN-02) released the following statement regarding the MAHA Commission Report. “The renewed focus on improving our overall health, and examining how food contributes to health outcomes, is something to be encouraged. Working to make all Americans healthier is certainly worthwhile of a whole-of-government approach. That effort should be ... Read More »
Today, leading Democrats of the House Agriculture Committee slammed the $300 billion in food assistance cuts included in the Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill after it was voted out of the House along party lines. “The Republicans’ budget will make America hungrier, poorer and sicker. Parents struggling to afford groceries for their families and seniors living on fixed incomes will have thei... Read More »
Today, House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Angie Craig (MN-02) delivered the following opening statement before the House Rules Committee, as Republicans pushed forward with their plan to cut $300 billion from food assistance programs to fund tax breaks for wealthy individuals and large corporations. Rules Committee Republicans convened the hearing at 1:00 am EDT, advancing their tax scam w... Read More »
Last night, House Agriculture Committee Republicans advanced their unpopular budget bill, which cuts $300 billion from basic needs food assistance programs that help feed hungry Americans. The Republican budget would make food more expensive for parents struggling to afford groceries for their children, seniors living on fixed incomes, veterans and people with disabilities, to fund tax breaks for ... Read More »
Today, House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Angie Craig (MN-02) released the following statement after the committee advanced the largest cut to food assistance in American history in their partisan reconciliation bill. “While Democrats showed up to this two-day hearing ready to work, Republicans hardly showed up at all. When their seats weren’t empty, they were silent. And the silence was d... Read More »
Today, House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Angie Craig (MN-02) published an op-ed in the MinnPost. Read the full op-ed here and an excerpt below. “The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which helps over 42 million Americans keep food on the table, is on Trump’s chopping block. SNAP provides only around $6 a day to help people meet their basic food needs. Republicans have set ... Read More »
