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Food is A National Security Issue

Floor Speech

By: Jim Costa
By: Jim Costa
Date: Feb. 2, 2022
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. COSTA. Madam Speaker, I rise to speak on behalf of the America COMPETES Act of 2022, which makes a critical $45 billion investment in supply chain resiliency--critical.

Farmers in my district have suffered from a backlog seen in American ports and harbors. The California Farm Bureau estimates that in a 4- month period last year, California agriculture exports fell by $2 billion--important and significant.

Food, I believe, is a national security issue. This supply chain crisis hurts farmers and only increases food insecurity and prices for those in need; i.e., the American consumer.

That is why I am cosponsoring an amendment in the COMPETES Act that requires the Secretary of Agriculture and Assistant Secretary of supply chain resilience and crisis response to monitor food and agriculture supply chains and provide Congress with their findings so that we can protect and improve our critical supply chain in this country.

Our country must ensure that we have safeguards in place to keep our supply chains strong, which contributes to success on the global economic stage.

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