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 syste...
I appreciate the timeliness of this hearing, as USDA works to implement the 2008 Farm Bill, including several new rural ...
We are going to be allowed questions for the record?
I think each side has a pretty good argument to make because at the end of the day we just underfund the program.
I am troubled by the Service's recent congressional mandate to revise and reissue ESA rules concerning the listing of th...
I wanted to get this on the record, and if you would make that statement perhaps in your opening remarks.
I would like to put the entire opening statement in the record.
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.
My only point is this, and I find there's something in my own mind, perhaps my narrow mind, that it is almost un-America...
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 hav...
We tried to triple that amount and were unsuccessful in being able to get the bill up.
Both Chairman Boxer and I have complained about some of the bureaucratic delays that might be eliminated.
I am for all of those things that are included in here.
We can do it. We know we can do it. We are doing it right now just by getting people in a room working together.
We all agree that a passenger rail system linking the big cities of this Country would be a great idea.
How are we going to finance a high speed rail system today without some form of capital funding?
