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I just wanted to make a statement that certainly the people in South Dakota recognize, widespread they recognize the need for this piece of legislation...

Well, Representative Waxman, that editor of that newspaper certainly doesn't represent my farmers and ranchers across South Dakota.

What my statement was or should have been was that the scientific research is very different showing the detrimental effects of urban dust versus rural dust.

Well, there are 100 cosponsors that are signed on to the bill.

I certainly believe that the title of the bill and the language of the bill is very clear that it means to address farm dust and nuisance dust throughout the piece of legislation.

My bill is a bipartisan approach to ending the EPA's regulation of farm dust in rural America while still maintaining the protections of the Clean Air Act to the public health and welfare.

There is growing concern that excess regulations are hampering economic growth and job creation across the country.

The very last thing that our struggling economy needs is new costs and regulatory burdens on farmers and small businesses across rural America.

But as you have said, these athletes are bigger, stronger, faster, and the contact, the hits that I watch just every Sunday watching the NFL, there are some real contact being made there.

I think at that time, they treated everything with whiskey.

I think that is a very good idea, but it is more complicated than that because at some point, kids have to learn how to hit and how to be hit and how to avoid the big forces, and that can only come with practice.

It just seems like we have got, with young people out there, more and more injury occurring at an earlier and earlier age.

I think when most people think of concussions, as was mentioned, we think about football.

I am going to have to leave. I have to go to a cybersecurity hearing. That is a different kind of threat.

We need to ensure that our policies reflect the latest science.

I would say, Madam Chair and Senator Inhofe, other members of the Committee, going forward, flood control needs to be the top priority for the Corps, particularly in wet cycles.

I believe that human error contributed to the creation of this particular disaster.

I have said throughout this entire debacle this past summer that the Corps of Engineers needs to be held to account for their management of the Missouri River system this year.