Mr. Secretary, welcome to the Agriculture Committee. When we first met in this room back in January, I invited you to Ka...
I am astonished by that, knowing what the consequences will be.
midwestern states would bear the brunt of the economic blow.
My question is, what are the amounts of money that farmers are going to pay additionally under this legislation that we ...
Our frustration here is, while you continue to express the belief that we will work our way through this magic legislati...
So what we are doing is we are transferring wealth, income from those who can least afford it, at least in this example ...
this means a huge tax increase.
That is how difficult it is. That is the reason I keep saying this next decade is going to be extremely difficult.
This is a serious issue for us, and I am delighted that Mr. Peterson has called this hearing.
this legislation could be one of the most detrimental policy changes we will consider this Congress.
H.R. 2454 is a cap-and-tax bill.
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...
I do believe that this is one of the pieces of legislation that may be the most detrimental, damaging things that we cou...
I think there is a genuine concern in rural communities.
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...
We are losing a lot of population in rural areas.
this is a Department that intersects American lives every single day in multiple ways.
A 65 percent number just seems way high to me on those two areas.
