But we would like the volumes to go up, I think, too.

I think it just calls to mind how important it is to get this farm bill passed when you think of the provisions that would help with the disasters.

Mississippi River transportation is my next question.

I supported emergency efforts to help with haying and grazing, as you know, and one of the concerns I have heard is that emergency haying and grazing is often only allowed in counties already impacted by drought.

I think it is something that we have to prepare better for next time and have a plan in place.

It is really, really exciting testimony. Really exciting stuff.

Studies have been done--29,000 jobs, 21 percent annual return on investment to construct that road.

our system is broken when, if you do things right, you cannot see your wife and your four kids or cannot even get the application started going in about two and a half years.

dairy farmers cannot access the Federal agricultural Guest Worker Program because cows are not seasonal.

I just want to make sure that those kids have rights and those parents have rights during those kind of actions.

we have seen firsthand in Minnesota how devastating these enforcement actions can be on families.

I have Marion County in South Carolina, which is the highest unemployment in the State of South Carolina, 18.5 percent.

spending money on meritorious infrastructure is not really an expense but an investment that pays returns.

We have got two major infrastructure projects in my district.

Is it your testimony that Chairman Roe and I and others who have expressed concerns about the NLRB acting right now when their constitutionality is challenged are 'serving the narrow interests of the 1 percent.'

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Exactly. We have a student right now... is a technical superstar and is looking at taking permanent residence in Canada because it is just too difficult to get that green card here.

Thank you again, following up on Senator Durbin's comments, for not only taking this incredibly difficult job, but then staying with it.