In my home State of Oklahoma, one convenience store chain experienced a 30 percent drop in fuel sales once they began selling fuel blended a...
Using water more efficiently is one way we can help extend the life of current systems and is important for planning for the future.
Today we are focusing on a very small piece of a very large issue: water efficiency.
I am looking forward to working with Chairman Cardin and Ranking Member Crapo on the water infrastructure bill.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing today.
Fortunately, we were able to secure funds within the stimulus package to address some of the needs for rural water systems, rural broadband,...
These are the challenges rural America faces, and it is why I take very seriously our charge to create programs that will give rural communi...
I appreciate the timeliness of this hearing, as USDA works to implement the 2008 Farm Bill, including several new rural development programs...
I think each side has a pretty good argument to make because at the end of the day we just underfund the program.
We are going to be allowed questions for the record?
I am troubled by the Service's recent congressional mandate to revise and reissue ESA rules concerning the listing of the polar bear.
I think that you guys are smart and we have a lot of smart generals, and if you're asked what we're going to have to have 10 years from now ...
My only point is this, and I find there's something in my own mind, perhaps my narrow mind, that it is almost un-American that we would have...
I think we are quite capable of paying at a level of 4.5 or 5 percent absolutely indefinitely until the end of time.
I don't want to take that risk. The only way I see to make this happen is to have the best of everything.
I would like to put the entire opening statement in the record.
I wanted to get this on the record, and if you would make that statement perhaps in your opening remarks.
We are going to have to get a little more creative.
