As someone pointed out earlier, here they come again, this crowd, always showing up at the trough taking advantage of tragedy on September 11 to raid the Treasury.

Tom Harkin got it right. I second that.

We will raise heck anyway.

I don't have to face anybody's vote for 5-1/2 years, so I just dictate to my conscience and what is best.

I don't oppose the DM&E Railroad. It has got to be structured so that, first of all, it hauls grain commodities rather than coal from Western States through our heartland.

Well said.

Very powerful statement, Tom.

Thank you very much, Brian. I mean what I said. You and Amber can come out and testify, and you can show the members of the committee how to mix the stuff.

That is an excellent suggestion. We are going to try and put this together.

We believe it is time to level the playing field here so that farm assistance is spread more equally among all farmers.

I am going to gavel the hearing of the Senate Agriculture Committee officially to order.

We need to have those kinds of environmental incentives.

We believe that now is a historic opportunity for the Senate to pass a farm bill that is based on sensitive goals and realistic outcomes.

I have never seen an array of such complicated, interrelated, interwoven programs that you all have to contend with every day and every year of your life.

We can't afford another shakeout of family farmers. Then we won't have any left. This is the time to do it.

We need opportunity for everybody if they want to make their living on the land.

We believe that is good for all Minnesotans regardless of your political beliefs.

the future of agriculture is not a Republican issue. It is not a matter of right versus left. It is really right versus wrong.