"There is legislation I introduced called the IMPACT Act, which would set up a Federal revolving loan fund."
"Solving this credit crisis on Main Street is going to require multiple strategies."
"Thank you for your focus especially on manufacturing, what it means to the auto supply chain and helping those companies get credit."
"I find, being here over 100 days now, that the biggest problem we have is people just need to make decisions and stick to them."
"I would love to know what has been done, what the plan is to continue with that effort. Have we realized any savings?"
"I believe, similarly to you, Madam Chairman, that if we don't do it, they will--if we don't draw the line in the sand, it will not get done."
"Our SECTORS Act, our legislation is basically founded on, as Senator Enzi suggested, that it is from the bottom up."
"I would just like to suggest that you take a serious look at that and review that program."
"I see peppers on the shelf that are local supermarkets from foreign countries."
"Welcome."
"I would suggest for the local grown, local farm to school effort, one of our problems in the region I represent is processing."
"I am very interested in how USDA programs overall benefit local farmers."
"I know the WIC Farmers' Market Coupon Program functions at some level in my area, but I don't know how much."
"I would like to know how those programs benefit local farming."
"With your power at USDA, I would really challenge you to consider some pilot counties, and to think about your programs and their impact on local agriculture."
"I am wondering if you could provide us any insight into measuring the impact of USDA programs."
"The question really is, when are we going to have it? And second of all, what do you say to some other people that we are going to hear from that say we have got to have more fence because we have got..."
"It is interesting that foreign creditors now own roughly half of our debt, China being lead among them."