I want to thank the chairwoman for doing that, and I promise I won't do a coup here.
Now, my experience again on these things, everybody is bottom feeding, if you will, on these...
I sure want to invite you or any of your industry associations to come up with specific proposals to put forward because...
Just an excellent panel.
Can we learn anything from past difficulties on policy moves that we should or should not make that can either make this...
This legislation is beneficial in improving patient care for our Nation's veterans.
I want to be certain that PAs are appropriately utilized by the VA to serve our veterans.
I want to thank Congressman Hare for his leadership on reintroducing this bill.
I am interested in knowing whether USDA has completed, even in preliminary form, any assessment of the additional costs ...
And I guess my question would be, do you endorse this bill, or do you just endorse the concept behind the bill?
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.
A quarter to a third of what income we produce in agriculture comes from our ability to export agricultural commodities.
In the absence of these agricultural offsets, it is not just agriculture that is negatively affected... the entire U.S. ...
It would make us less competitive.
To my knowledge, no agricultural witness was asked to testify or testified during any of those hearings.
I assume that you would all concur with the reality that agriculture will be dramatically affected by a piece of legisla...
