Mike Johanns: “Independence is important to the functioning of our financial system.”

Our job is to try to figure out how we deal with that puzzle, that very difficult issue of how to provide services to people who need it.

I just hope we are not over-engineering something here.

I appreciate the fact that you have the Agricultural Advisory Committee up and running. Thank you for that.

I ask for the yeas and nays. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination of Joseph S. Hezir, of Virginia, to…