My, aren't free elections a wondrous thing?
We will look for duplication within issue areas to determine program overlap.
Conservation is an important element of farm policy.
My goal with these hearings is two-fold.
Unfortunately, this is not always the case.
we give the Americans the most abundant, safe and affordable food on this Earth.
As a farmer, as I said I have always considered myself an eternal optimist.
When we lose that source of production, we don't usually get it back.
Each of those audits was important in their own right, but I believe today's audit of Title I programs and disaster assi...
Understanding the true cost and benefits of our Title I programs will help us develop a better farm bill moving forward.
That is why I am so grateful to the men and women who choose farming as a career.
I am one of those around this place who knows my way through the FSA office.
That's why I'm so grateful to the men and women who choose farming as a career.
I can tell you in these temperatures every chore is that much harder.
I believe that we would be holding these audits regardless of the time period in which we will be writing the next farm ...
the conservation programs are the most popular. They do the most good. They are the legacy programs.
Today's audit will help us evaluate our current policy so that we can determine what is working, what needs to be adjust...
In 2002, we increased conservation spending in the 2002 Farm Bill by $17 billion over 10 years--an 80 percent expansion ...