 This is Agriculture Today. For 18 months, we've heard a steady chorus of Republican voices expressing alarm about debt and deficits and calling for this committee to focus on its real job. It's hard to reconcile that with Republicans voting for the 2017 reconciliation bill that cut taxes for the wealthy and large corporations and blew a $2 trillion hole in the deficit. Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Sheldon Whitehouse from Rhode Island.