When we passed the Farm Bill in 2001--I think that is right, 2001--we were given a budget to work with by the Budget Committee for 10 years for our programs.

I would not let this opportunity pass without thanking Chairman Bennett for his strong support of conservation programs.

So the first applications would be available this fall.

I just am hoping that you do have a revision of these rules.

It would not be acceptable for a commodity program to do that, and it should not be acceptable for this kind of commodity program.

I cannot believe that a 15 percent limitation is any kind of a real onerous limit.

We are moving ahead at Ames, and I just wanted to thank you, Mr. Chairman, Senator Kohl and your staff, along with Secretary Veneman, very much for all of your support and help with the Ames lab.

I think we, all of us here and on the authorizing committee, have been more than understanding of saying, okay, fine, things take time.

But the President's budget proposes one.

I think we have been fairly indulgent on this.

Thank you very much, Dr. Penn.

I want the world to `buy America.' The best products on any shelf anywhere in the world say, `Made in the USA.'

I have here a recent letter that 56 members of the Senate signed.

I understand most of whom opposed the proposed rule and everybody who spoke was against the proposed rule.

Well, do you see the irony that I have just--the irony that USDA is complaining about the difficulty of implementing a rule that is open to all with a cap, okay?

the proposed CSP rule--I am getting back to that proposed rule again--would bar the vast majority of producers from participating.

the bill represented a significant step backward because it would not adequately protect the health of Iowans, and it would set a standard so lenient it would undermine the credibility of the CAFO industry.

And as Winston Churchill said, a democracy is a very terrible system except when compared to every other system.