this means a huge tax increase.
Mr. Secretary, welcome to the Agriculture Committee. When we first met in this room back in January, I invited you to Ka...
H.R. 2454 is a cap-and-tax bill.
I am glad you are at USDA. USDA touches each American's life multiple times a day, food, housing programs, research and ...
A 65 percent number just seems way high to me on those two areas.
What seems to be developing, and, in fact, we have talked here among ourselves that if we put the three of you in a room...
We have been through this a long time. We have had a long conversation and discussion in Congress about a broad Zelener ...
The point I wanted to make is it is a corn-soy blend. Great. All for corn-soy. But this formulation has not been changed...
I think it is a critical diplomatic program. I think it is a critical humanitarian program.
We think there are opportunities to create wealth and repopulate rural America.
We are working with our credit friends, Farm Credit and others, to try to figure out strategies and ways in which we can...
We want to aggressively implement the energy title provisions of the 2008 farm bill.
We want to develop an ecologically sustainable forest and private working land system.
It is the goal of the President. It is the goal of USDA, and I suspect it is the goal of this committee to significantly...
this is a Department that intersects American lives every single day in multiple ways.
We are here, I think, to determine the success of that fix, and I hope we learn that from the CFTC.
We are losing a lot of population in rural areas.
May I suggest you or your staff take a look at a bill several of us put together and have for a series of years called t...
