Our goal is certainly not to guarantee everybody a profit, or anybody a profit, I should say.

I don't think we ever intended in the drafting of the farm bill for a crop that was not harvested to be counted against a farmer's generic base.

What is disappointing to me is that it has been fairly difficult to obtain helpful documents from the EPA...

Thank you, Mr. Beyer, and I appreciate that, and it is the intention of this Subcommittee to look into this matter.

I would like to commend the Department for their implementation of the new STAX income protection program.

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It has been noted many times before this Committee, but always bears repeating, that derivatives markets are essential not only to the farmers, ranchers, and end-users who utilize them, but to our broader economy.

So the reason we are so supportive of a voluntary national labeling standard, the Pompeo-Butterfield bill that was offered last year, is it makes order out of that potential chaos or complexity and saves cost.

the consumer does need to know and the consumer needs to have the ability to make that choice.

Yes. One of the concerns I had was the unfortunate financial burden that some of this had on you.

I think that that is a path we need to keep on.

So for all of you, what we did in H.R. 4413 is what we should continue to do in the new legislation.

As the Democratic Ranking Member, I am looking forward to working with you and the Committee as we continue our critical mission to reauthorize the Commodity Exchange Act.

In conclusion, Mr. Chairman, let me emphasize Congress never intended for the end-users to be regulated in the same manner as financial entities.