"I just don't like the idea that the Partnership Program, which is working so well, is being used for a different agenda."
"And that is exactly what we experienced in 2005 in our hearing. Because, you know, I think you would agree with me, landowners want to do this."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman."
"It is very unusual, Debbie, that we have the witness coming back. And so it shows that we hold you in a very high regard."
"I support adequate funding for the Partners Program, but I am concerned that the funding Congress provides may be controlled by a political agenda."
"I believe all conservation programs should create positive incentives to protect species and above all should hold the rights of private landowners sacred."
"I appreciate you have been there for a long time, so you have worked in these programs, and that helps us out a little bit up here."
"The Partners Program demonstrates that conservation, oil and gas development, and agriculture are not mutually exclusive."
"Well, yes, if it is rapidly changing, and that is my point."
"I would really like to first-hand get updated on what you are doing there in Edmond, Oklahoma, at your school."
"I think that is working very well."
"Do you have any thoughts on the fact that this bill doesn't address underlying core problems like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?"
"The answer to that is absolutely no. Nobody is going to believe they have the capability to do that."
"their existing function is they take over and immediately sell the assets and they don't run things, correct?"
"Systemic risk and the fact that it was there created the necessary program for us to eliminate that systemic risk."
"I think 90 percent of the problems associated with the meltdown in our mortgage system and the financial crisis sits on the lap of Congress."
"The option in the Dodd bill is to tax you so that we can have a fund, and I have real problems with how that fund is managed."
"I don't think we have gotten there."
