If this Waxman-Markey bill does not include agriculture offsets... we will be at a horrible, horrible disadvantage in ag...
If we are setting the template... we ought to make certain that we do it right, as compared to just do it.
We had this conservation with the previous panel and one of my concerns is about our competitiveness.
That is how difficult it is. That is the reason I keep saying this next decade is going to be extremely difficult.
I assume that you would all concur with the reality that agriculture will be dramatically affected by a piece of legisla...
To my knowledge, no agricultural witness was asked to testify or testified during any of those hearings.
It would make us less competitive.
In the absence of these agricultural offsets, it is not just agriculture that is negatively affected... the entire U.S. ...
A quarter to a third of what income we produce in agriculture comes from our ability to export agricultural commodities.
And I guess my question would be, do you endorse this bill, or do you just endorse the concept behind the bill?
I am interested in knowing whether USDA has completed, even in preliminary form, any assessment of the additional costs ...
Our frustration here is, while you continue to express the belief that we will work our way through this magic legislati...
My question is, what are the amounts of money that farmers are going to pay additionally under this legislation that we ...
So what we are doing is we are transferring wealth, income from those who can least afford it, at least in this example ...
I do believe that this is one of the pieces of legislation that may be the most detrimental, damaging things that we cou...
This is a huge tax increase. It is a tax increase so large that it could pay for the commodity title of the 2008 Farm Bi...
this legislation could be one of the most detrimental policy changes we will consider this Congress.
midwestern states would bear the brunt of the economic blow.
