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Sen. Pat Roberts on His Past and Agriculture’s Future

Sen. Pat Roberts on His Past and Agriculture’s Future

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Sen. Pat Roberts on His Past and Agriculture’s Future

FromDairy Defined

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Length:
18 minutes
Released:
Dec 14, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

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Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts is leaving Congress after 40 years in January. The only person to lead both the House and Senate agriculture committees takes with him a wealth of wisdom in agriculture policy – but also holds optimism for agriculture’s ability to get things done in an environment of difficult challenges.“I would just say that I am very confident that the people who will be taking my place, they have a lot of experience,” Roberts said. “They're good folks. I think the same attempt, at least, with regards to making it bipartisan, will continue.”Roberts, who first came to Washington as a congressional staffer a half-century ago, also reflects on the two farm bills he led -- 1996’s Freedom to Farm law and the 2018 bill -- as well as one area where he wished he could have done more: his leadership of the Senate Intelligence Committee during the Iraq War. He also said he doesn’t consider his career to be over – without revealing plans, he said that when it comes to farm policy, “I intend to have my finger in the pie somewhere.”
Released:
Dec 14, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

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