If a biotech food product, like sugar beets in the example provided, is deemed by the FDA to be safe for human consumption, meet the same quality standards as a non-biotech, and is nutritionally and essentially the same as a non-biotech…

I think to be clear, a decision to implement mandatory labeling would then not be based on safety concerns or sound science, but on other factors?

The concern I hear back home is that we want to make sure the States' voices are heard in that process.

I believe this policy needs to be reinstated.

It's regulations and uncertainty. That's the one-two punch.

Many of these businesses only have a handful of employees and do not have armies of lawyers to wade through the thousands of pages of regulations.

yesterday I joined Senators Gardner and Moran on a factfinding mission to Guantanamo Bay. Guantanamo Bay was a humble reminder of the services our military provides overseas to get these terrorists off the battlefield and ensure they don't…

I had that experience myself in the software business in Montana.

It is important that the FDA remains focused on its mission to helping ensure the United States has a safe food supply and abstains from marketing or labeling mandates that would have no bearing on food safety.

There's plenty of vacancies available down there that we should be putting these enemy combatants there and holding them in a very secure and honorable way.

I think that you have done some positive things for research in here.

For farmers to do trial and error is a good way to go broke.

I think we need to be careful to not make producing Federal coal completely uneconomical.

I do not want you to get into those details.

I hope we plus this up again.

I believe in transparency. I believe in a fair return to the taxpayer.

I think the request this year is $19.5 million for construction on those six projects.

Thank you for being here.