I think the heart of the question is, are the controls, the system robust enough to have caught something like this?

Let's think creatively about the constructive partnerships that could potentially be out there that use our expertise of our farmers.

On the one hand, you are our police force out there, making sure that billions are spent legally and effectively.

I am eager to get an update on the Farm Credit System and how it continues to play a critical role in providing stable and dependable sources of financial credit for, as the chairman mentioned, the hard-working men and women of rural…

Americans, again, are worried about drug prices, and while I realize you only play a partial role in debating the policy as to how to bring down these prices and increasing values to patients, I hope that we will see a robust plan to…

All right, thank you. Let me go two other quick questions.

We have something exciting going on, actually, in the agricultural family.

A natural disaster like this can also, in some ways, create blessings in disguise.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, again for calling this important hearing.

Regarding beginning farmers and ranchers as well as small farmers, you have credit available as part of your portfolio to persons in this category.

instead of all of what we are talking about being somehow reasons for divisiveness, are actually reasons for consensus.

There is a lot of consequences to flooding, some of which are--couldn't be perceived before it actually happens.

How much will this lower drug costs?

I think all of us remain concerned about youth access to flavored tobacco products, and particularly e-cigarettes, and it is not a partisan issue.

We have received stacks and stacks and stacks of support letters from Senators, Members of Congress, governors, community leaders, business leaders, associations, and local communities.

This is a war on poverty, not a war on the impoverished.

We help feed America and feed the world and we are very proud of that.

I am very shortly--perhaps even today introducing a Northern Iraq Security Resolution, along with my good friend Anna Eshoo, a Democrat from California.