Senate amendment No. 2187 offered by Senator Kerry has now been voice voted onto the farm bill. It is unfortunate that this significant change of USDA policy occurred without a recorded vote. While it may sound innocuous to add commercial…

Coal was a pretty good decision for our State. Why? Wyoming is right next door.

I appreciate your offer, and there is not enough time, in fact I have run out of time already, to challenge some of your assertions.

We chose an avenue of public power. We are the only State in the United States that would be 100 percent public power.

My concern is it does not stop there. What I saw about Dodd-Frank, you know, we started out with, I think, a laudable purpose.

We need to do all we can.

Mr. Dimon, it further occurs to me that at an enterprise as big and as powerful as yours, you have got a lot of fire power, and you are just huge.

One of the things that I have maintained in many hearings as we have examined Dodd-Frank before and after its passage is that there is just a point at which it is economically better business to do business elsewhere than the United States.

This legislation seeks to improve the ability of servicemembers to receive State licenses and certificates for jobs they already know how to do.

I come to the floor today to discuss the farm bill that is now before the Senate. I want to say at the outset that this is a reform-minded bill that saves money and continues the evolution of farm policy in our Nation. I commend the chair…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, I appreciate you holding this hearing today.

There is no reason why, working closely with Chinese to implement some much-needed reforms, last year's level of exports could not be doubled, maybe even tripled.

What has happened since then is that the Chinese are especially entrepreneurial and that economy has taken off.

I am going to walk away from this hearing very, very worried that the system is imploding.

It would be terribly unfortunate if we showed up in 6 months and nothing is happening.

There are so many of those kinds of things that you run into.

I appreciate the fact that you have decided to hold this hearing, and we have also appreciated the opportunity to cooperate with you on that.

As a Senator from Nebraska, I am eager to figure out ways to expand the opportunities for trade in agricultural products.

In this town sometimes it is hard to find bipartisanship, as we all know. I will guarantee that frustration here is very bipartisan.

I think there is a next step out here, and here is why.

China must stop discriminating against American-grown beef.

One of the concerns about Dodd-Frank, and maybe even more specifically this area of Dodd-Frank, as you know, and it has been one of my concerns, is the more you crank it down, the more the regulations become more and more onerous, the…

I know of no other issue that is more central and bedrock to our relationship than this issue which is the subject matter of this hearing, the trust relationship.

I thank the Senator. We look at those charts and reach the conclusion, inescapably, if we do not start doing oversight and start figuring this out, we are not going to solve this problem. My colleague's reputation as a watchdog of the…

Very clearly this body is saying, the Senate and the House of Representatives, when they vote on the President's budget, they are saying very clearly: The President's budget spends too much, it taxes too much, and it borrows too much. It…