Interestingly enough about the President's budget, where he professed to eliminate the estate tax, he kept the revenue from it.

When we talk about tax reform, I believe we should start and end the conversation on how it is going to affect small businesses in America.

Senator Hoeven and I have led a lot of efforts on distracted driving and got a bill passed just recently with Senator Thune's help.

I will be brief, but I beg your indulgence.

I think this Committee shares that frustration that we aren't making progress. We need benchmarks and then levels of accountability.

I want to commend you on that as well as Lighthizer and Wilbur Ross. I think that will help our cattle producers.

I think it is a very difficult way to have a transition when you think that almost 9 months later we get the people in place to lead these agencies.

I am appalled that the Winnebago Tribe still does not have a facility that is CMS-certified. That is not acceptable.

Ben Franklin once famously said, 'If we don't all hang together, surely we will hang separately.'

Good farm policy benefits every single American every single day with the highest quality lowest cost food supply in the history of the world.

It is moving too slowly getting these appointments in place and I think we all need to do everything we can to help expedite it.

I think way too often in Washington, DC, we deal with the problem that is immediate in front of us, only to look up and see a crisis looming.

We need you guys to tell that story more.

Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman, and I want to take a little credit for Mr. Grooms, too, because you represent my State.

It sort of makes me sad that on top of doing things like introducing new basic banking, checking account, and some things that serve our consumers more effectively, we have to have the HMDA preparation as a major initiative.

It would be ongoing.

I thank my good friend the Senator from Minnesota. She just exists to the east of me. We share a common border, but we also share a common belief that Washington is not devoid of ideas. Somehow, it has just lost the capacity to bring those…

I am asking for your commitment to work with us.