Maintaining a transportation infrastructure is just critical to our nation's commerce.
I think it has dramatically changed and continues to change agriculture in rural America.
Bio-based products hold an exciting future for agriculture and potentially can help the United States to recapture chemi...
I think this is an important subject given the current fiscal and budget and deficit crisis the nation is facing.
As you know, it is an area of dire need and the consequences of waiting are going to be, as I mentioned, pretty profound...
it's going to be difficult for Republicans to support Mr. Bryson's nomination until the Administration submits those fre...
the Commerce Secretary has got to be a strong advocate for trade and open markets for America's farmers and manufacturer...
I can't emphasize that enough, Mr. Chairman.
Excessive corporate taxes and needless regulations are preventing the creation of jobs and severely limiting economic gr...
If there is a farmers co-op out there that poses a systemic risk to the economy, I have not bumped into it yet.
Do you believe that the position limits that are being proposed by the CFTC will raise costs for smaller investors who h...
I am in particular concerned about the limited definition the CFTC is looking to instate for the de minimis exemption wh...
Should end users who are hedging financial risk be given an exemption?
The economy should be roaring back by now, but instead it's still struggling, and the unemployment rate is 9.1 percent.
These trade agreements are critical to the economy, they are critical to jobs and export markets.
I also am concerned about the perception that a lot of people have that the entire agriculture budget goes into producti...
the effective risk management for agriculture producers needs to be one of the highest priorities that all of us, I thin...
this proposed change has the potential to cause financial hardship on many farmers in that area and in North Dakota and ...
