A contingent of 27 Republican members of the House sent a letter, dated May 22, to President Joe Biden and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, calling on them to denounce comments that special climate envoy John Kerry made this month in a speech at a global climate summit held in Washington that focused on agriculture.
The legislators were coming to the aid of American farmers, whom they felt were unjustly attacked in the former secretary of state’s remarks.
Rep. Mark Alford (R-Mo.). (United States Congress)
Lead signatories of the letter are Mark Alford of Missouri—which trails only Texas in the category of states with the most farms (albeit by a 246,000-95,000 margin)—Committee on Agriculture Chairman Glenn Thompson (Pa.), Transportation Committee Chairman Sam Graves (Mo.), and Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Iowa, which has the third most farms in the nation with 84,900….