Mike Johanns: “None of this is very reassuring to me, and you understand why. This is a big project with significant issues.”

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

But to anyone who might be listening in who is wondering if is it time to give up, it is not.

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

I will continue to push this legislation, but many of its provisions are things that HUD has the flexibility to implement on its own.