[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 120 (Wednesday, July 20, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H6890-H6891]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    GOVERNMENT OVERREACH ON FARMERS

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, with all the issues people are dealing 
with, the inflation, the high cost of everything, now we have the 
Securities and Exchange Commission's incredulous new proposed rule 
requiring small, privately run family farms to produce huge volumes of 
climate-related information to be able to then sell their products to 
public companies, which is going to be nearly impossible for small 
farms. Inflation being driven by SEC new regs.
  Farmers are facing an assault of repeated increases in regulations 
and rises in inputs cost. When world leaders are warning of coming food 
shortages, don't make it harder for farmers to do their jobs and grow 
food for people to use.
  Small family farms are struggling financially to keep their 
operations up and running. They don't have the funds to hire a full-
scale environmental compliance department to meet the SEC's ridiculous 
proposed demands. Farmers are producing more food and fibers with less 
inputs, like water, land, and labor than ever before.

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  The SEC needs to think about the unintended catastrophic consequences 
this new rule will have on our Nation's farmers, and in turn, on our 
food supply, which is already going to be short.
  We need to fight together in a bipartisan effort to combat this 
blatant government overreach.

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