Using water more efficiently is one way we can help extend the life of current systems and is important for planning for...
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.
I appreciate the timeliness of this hearing, as USDA works to implement the 2008 Farm Bill, including several new rural ...
These are the challenges rural America faces, and it is why I take very seriously our charge to create programs that wil...
Fortunately, we were able to secure funds within the stimulus package to address some of the needs for rural water syste...
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 would like to put the entire opening statement in the record.
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...
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 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 wanted to get this on the record, and if you would make that statement perhaps in your opening remarks.
I am troubled by the Service's recent congressional mandate to revise and reissue ESA rules concerning the listing of th...
I fear that a national infrastructure bank will serve urban areas at the expense of rural.
You know, I am glad to hear you say that because all too often, we want to reinvent something that has already been inve...