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These amendments just go to undermine the ability of USDA to do what it is supposed to do for the American people. This is another amendment that cuts funding, and if you keep cutting funding, you will totally make this agency unable to…
I claim the time in opposition to the amendment. The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Issa). The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
This is a bad amendment. It is bad for the country. It is bad for the USDA. Mr. Chair, I urge defeat of this amendment, and I reserve the balance of my time.
I hope that the people who are watching tonight will take note of the fact that they don't have to take our word for it. The Congressional Budget Office has scored this bill, and they have scored the manager's amendment. The gentleman says…
Every time I hear Republicans talk, they are talking about the cost of everything going up. Assuming, which is not true, that the $6 billion is the same as the last year, they say over and over and over how much the cost of living has gone…
Indeed, as you point out, there is substantial jurisprudence that would support the regulation of speech in this extreme case, with knowing and willfully deceptive fabrication of statements made by candidates for office or public figures.
I think there are circumstances in which I would probably agree with you that things cross the line.
I think you just got to the root of the matter very efficiently and elegantly.
We are talking about, for example, Senator Fischer, one of your political adversaries, willfully, knowingly, and with extreme realism, falsely depicting you or any of us.
I am delighted with your presentation. I understand with low economic and finance that I handle at times, particularly with the stock market. Keep up the good work. Don't get discouraged. We will get out of this mess in our financial…
I believe you are doing an excellent job at a very difficult and challenging time facing our economy and especially our securities markets.
Congressman Frank Lucas and I raised concerns with how this move could impair market liquidity and hinder the SEC's core mission to maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets.
What do you say to truckers that are just trying to compete? I mean, we've got high fuel prices, high insurance.
I think the conversation is a little bit overweight, risked to the point where we are in jeopardy of unduly restraining the diffusion of some productivity-enhancing or research-advancing capabilities.
I think the conversation is a little bit overweight, risked to the point where we are in jeopardy of unduly restraining the diffusion of some productivity-enhancing or research-advancing capabilities.
The Nation watches as the Republicans have no answer for why they want to focus and obsess on Hunter Biden...
If you ask any American citizen who is--by the way, we're in $33 trillion in national debt now. I don't think we can afford to pay for this.
You are in charge of one of the largest agencies in the Federal Government. Your jurisdiction is over an industry in which you have zero experience.