For a lot of independent producers around the country, they have three to five employees.

What I am hearing are terms like sustainable deficits, that doesn't seem to be working towards getting it under control.

I have no issue with all forms of energy. I have an issue with going and punishing one group.

I see the other side of this, to say $26 trillion is a more frightening thing to me that balancing the budget is a frightening thing to me on that.

When I came on January 5, this year's budget deficit was projected to be $1.4 trillion.

I thank the gentleman from California for yielding. I do rise in support of H.R. 72. When the framers of the Constitution started writing, they began article I, section 1, with a simple and clear statement: ``All legislative powers herein…

Madam Speaker, I now yield 3 minutes to one of the senior members of the House Agriculture Committee and one of our subcommittee chairmen, the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Johnson).

Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to a first-term subcommittee chairman, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Thompson).

Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the subcommittee chairwoman from Ohio (Mrs. Schmidt). (Mrs. SCHMIDT asked and was given permission to revise and extend her remarks.)

Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Conaway), one of our subcommittee chairmen.

The ranking member is always a pleasure to work with. Madam Speaker, I now yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Missouri (Mrs. Hartzler).

Madam Speaker, I yield myself an additional 30 seconds. Many of the rules the CFTC has proposed would substantially increase the costs of hedging for commercial end-users, extending Wall Street regulation to Main Street companies. As we…

Madam Speaker, I rise today to claim the Agriculture Committee's time, which I believe I am sharing with my colleague from Minnesota, and I yield myself 5 minutes. Today, American agriculture is under attack. Every day, the administration…

Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to another outstanding subcommittee chairman on the Agriculture Committee, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Rooney).

Madam Speaker, I yield myself 2 minutes. I would note to my colleagues on the floor, as you have seen today, the members of the House Agriculture Committee are very concerned about the impact that these regulatory issues have on farmers…

Madam Speaker, may I inquire how much time remains. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Oklahoma has 3\1/4\ minutes remaining.

Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Austin Scott).

Madam Speaker, I next yield 1 minute to the good gentleman from the great First District of Kansas (Mr. Huelskamp), my neighbor from across the line in Kansas.