I just want to make certain, absolute certain, that in this need to find this safe environment by the Department of Labor, that you don't overreact, that you don't overreach, and that we don't fundamentally alter the way that rural…

I do want to make very clear that it is important for us to allow for young people to have the ability to go through education programs such as 4-H programs.

We just want to make sure that we get it right, that we get the most abundant comments from people that are out in the field.

We have seen serious fatalities, a record of more than, 21.3 percent per 100,000.

One of the many challenges facing our Nation involves a shortage of well-trained allied health professionals to meet the increasing medical needs of the aging workforce.

We care a lot about this from the livestock aspect, the cost to the economy. We are an agricultural State.

the disappointment that the President's budget is inadequate--in fact, requests no money this year for the continuation of that project.

The consequences of our failure to do so are more expensive in the loss of life and the economic damage to our economy and our people.

We need a multiyear, adequately funded transportation authorization before it expires at the end of this month. There is no question but gas prices are too high, but when the speculation subsides and when the world's oil price starts to…

the consequences of our failure to do so are more expensive in the loss of life and the economic damage to our economy and our people.

the idea that the administration would ask for nothing and use as an explanation that we really need more money than Congress has appropriated to date is self-defeating.

I would again encourage you, as the Secretary of Department of Homeland Security, to release the $40 million.

a delay in its completion ought not be anything that we tolerate.

the President's budget is inadequate--in fact, requests no money this year for the continuation of that project.

You know, you can see on this side it is--there are a lot of folks who just don't get how the--we come to these hearing and hear folks try to repeal the law of supply and demand.

It has been 4 years since the height of the Great Recession and our economy is nowhere near where it should be. Unemployment continues to hover around 8 percent and thousands upon thousands of hardworking Americans have left the job market…

And for every trade that there is a winner, there must be a loser.

We have seen serious fatalities, a record of more than, 21.3 percent per 100,000.