I think the floating homes, for a reasonable period, is good, but I think if you say they can never be sunset; that this is a perpetual right, that is creating personal property interest in public resources.
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I think the water quality is a matter of State law and State enforcement, I believe.
Yes, we need to improve our enforcement of standards, set standards, health, environmental standards.
I think that is part of the plan to do that, which is to----
I would appreciate that. Twenty-five, ten-thousandths of the amount in the general sign-up seems like proportionately a real bust.
That is an issue we are going to have to address in the next farm bill, for sure.
It seemed to me at least this ought to be something we could fix.
I would like to get your commitment today that this policy of donating vegetative cover... can be donated to livestock producers.
I fully support S. 3183, The Better On-line Ticket Sales (BOTS) Act, and I commend the bipartisan approach by the bill's sponsors.
Well, I know in rural areas it is critical that we have that available, simply because we do not have the numbers without them.
I just think that is very, very important and I appreciate all the work that you have done so far, sir.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First of all, let me add my congratulations for putting this together today with Ranking Member Blumenthal.
For me, I am from South Dakota and a small business owner, and I don't know if the same program would work for South Dakota that would work in New York or California or Florida or Illinois.
We appreciate his leadership in passing of the SRB reauthorization bill.
We appreciate his leadership in passing of the STB reauthorization bill.
Chairman Thune, you have been instrumental in addressing the rail concerns of our industry including the service related issues in 2014 and now with enactment of STB reform.
Chairman Thune, as you know, we in South Dakota experienced terrible rail service several years ago that impacted our industry as well as almost every rail shipper in the Northern Plains.