Source: Ellyn Ferguson, ROLL CALL, 12/14/20


Sen. Pat Roberts, a Kansas Republican who was chairman of the House and Senate Agriculture committees during a 40-year congressional career, will leave Capitol Hill worried about potential man-made threats to the U.S. food supply. “When we get briefed, I don’t get the sense of urgency that I feel,” Roberts said about intelligence briefings he has received about threats to agriculture. “I understand that I’m biased. I’ve been there and I saw this stuff,” he said in an interview with CQ Roll Call. 

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