It had a really significant impact on a second point of agriculture.

40 percent of the domestic production of corn goes to fuel, and the poultry industry is very dependent upon the corn stock.

I fully concur in that.

I think you have answered the question. Your focus, and I understand that, you have interpreted the code to give you authority to deal with the blend wall issues and the energy issues.

I do not understand why you did it for the advanced fuels.

If we were drafting a Renewable Fuels Standard bill today, I think we would be very cautious about using corn ethanol.

There have been several studies done by congressional agencies that have shown that by making more resources available to the IRS, we actually bring in more revenue to this country.

The tax code is complicated. That is not the fault of the IRS. That is the fault of the Congress.

I certainly understand the logic behind free market principles, but I think we need to recognize that private corporations are not going to necessarily look out for the poorest, the sickest, and the least fortunate among us.

The Federal Government therefore deserves a great deal of credit for doubling, doubling life expectancy for Americans, as well as for tackling a long and ever-changing list of problems regarded as the worst enemies in the Nation's health.

I think seniors are being told that by fear-mongering members of the other party who don't like the ACA.

I must say that, Dr. Thomas, I had an opportunity to read your testimony and I think it is appropriate that I start out by just quoting a little bit of it, because this is reading that every single American and every member of Congress…

I appreciate you convening this hearing so we can examine this important topic and the proposed legislation to address this issue of the use of performance-enhancing drugs in the horseracing industry.

This is an important topic of discussion. You do these things--to examine these things, you make sure that a sport like this is clean because it is in the long-term interest of the industry in maintaining the vibrancy of the industry in…

I look forward to hearing his perspectives.

I want to reiterate... my commitment to working with him and with the Chairman and the Ranking Member for a clean one year extension of the commercial launch indemnification provisions.

MAVEN, and its commercial partners, serves as an important reminder that over 80 percent of NASA's entire budget is and has been paid to commercial entities.

I think sometimes the public gets confused as though somehow this industry would just be off and going on its own without the requisite support of technology and other kinds of development and investment that the taxpayers made.