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According to the Office of Management and Budget, over the last 10 years, EPA regulations have imposed an estimated $42 billion in annual costs on this country.

Since President Obama took office in January 2009, the EPA has issued more than 3,300 new final regulations.

The EPA routinely fails to fully monetize the costs versus the benefits of their regulations.

It goes without saying that biotechnology has provided my home State of South Dakota and its number one industry, agriculture, with dramatic yield increases, drought tolerant crops, sustainability, and economic benefits that far exceed…

I am greatly concerned that just like many other areas of regulatory overreach, future regulation of our biotechnology crops, especially regarding the approval process, could become much more cumbersome and complicated and send the wrong…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

You know, a lot of the folks that work for you right now, good, hardworking individuals that provide good professional services, they do not start out with a program in which you have trained them to begin with.

It sounds like a bureaucratic mess to me.

It would appear that it does a lot to help deliver health care long term to the rural parts of the country.

If I could just make one final point, this is a classic example of when we concentrate on the areas of agreement and find the areas of agreement that unite us, as opposed to exploiting the divisions. Again, this is a perfect example of…

You recognize that this rule would make some significant changes in the definitions of waters of the United States?

You understood the significance of it.

Do you know how many different lawsuits you are involved with right now on this particular rule?

The health of the water is also a very crucial economic decision.

This is a pretty important economic decision, isn't it?

One of the largest. Very, very important in terms of economic impact and very, very important in terms of the political impact.

Isn't this agreement made meaningless by the fact that China has repeatedly denied that it engages in the activities this agreement purports to stop?

I think the cleaner we get the processes within the VA the better off we are going to be.