Can we learn anything from past difficulties on policy moves that we should or should not make that can either make this...
Just an excellent panel.
Now, my experience again on these things, everybody is bottom feeding, if you will, on these...
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.
This legislation is beneficial in improving patient care for our Nation's veterans.
I am astonished by that, knowing what the consequences will be.
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?
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...
This is a serious issue for us, and I am delighted that Mr. Peterson has called this hearing.
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.
