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Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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Elissa Slotkin Asks Agriculture Sec. About Need To Review Foreign Ownership Of American Farmland

Published | Video Starts at 01:04

A very small handful of states who we could have a potential problem with down the road. Myself and representative Feenstra from this committee put together something that we tried to make real, which is that When a foreign entity from an adversarial country tries to buy farmland, they would just go through a national security review. This is exactly what happens if farmland right now wants to be sold to a foreign country of any kind next to a military base. I'm from the Department of Defense. (01:04–01:12)

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Asserts that a proposed bill would require a national security review for farmland purchases by foreign entities from adversarial countries.

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