We have no casinos in Kansas. That is almost true. Not exactly.

we are here today and apparently this week to discuss legislation pending before the Senate, the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act. We have a serious problem in this country and around the globe in regard to human trafficking. This…

More guidance to come, more actual guidance.

I am pleased that the agency took many of the suggestions and comments from the agricultural community into account by re-proposing portions of the FSMA rules because they were unworkable for farmers.

Thank you very much.

We do have some concerns about the public policy benefit of an action like a partial prepaid loan.

I cannot understand the public policy of that. It does not benefit the utility. It does not impact the end-user.

I appreciate your comments in regard to the nature of Congress working in a bipartisan effort.

We think that is part of it. That is part of what we try to do as well.

We will continue to press Rural Development for more clarity, because we believe they have the authority to do what needs to be done.

There are lots of rules and regulations involving the quality of water, rightfully so. We want clean water.

What it brings to my mind is that getting us from this point to the certainty by December seems pretty far stretched to me, and a delay in the final implementation or the final effect of the rule is something you should consider.

Can you bring us up to date on the status? What approval process success have we had in the effort to combat Ebola?

I just want you to know that this subcommittee is going to be very actively engaged.

This year's budget request for the Department of Agriculture proposes a $900 million increase above the enacted levels in fiscal year 2015.

I do not think I ever served on a committee in the Senate that we have not been together on.

In the world I come from in Kansas, the rumor of food disease or animal-borne diseases causes dramatic consequences to farmers, to ranchers.

We, certainly, would like that information. Obviously, the appropriation bill requires that information be provided.