I met with her when I was Secretary of Agriculture.

I think those comments are extremely important, and I would strongly suggest that somebody in the Administration should pay attention to those comments.

We need more funding. It is not in my DNA, typically.

Funding has declined in Public Law 480-- Title II as commodity prices have gone up.

I cannot imagine why USAID would want to be involved, or even should be involved... It just seems crazy that you would be in the middle of that.

As Senator Moran pointed out, for about 35 years, Congress has looked at this area and put language in that basically said, if you employ more than 10 outside employees, then you are subject to OSHA.

I grew up on a farm myself. I have been around grain bins, power takeoff shafts, all of those things.

I want to reiterate my disappointment. I think it was important that I use my time to express this.

I met with her when I was Secretary of Agriculture.

I thank the Senator from Kansas for bringing this up, because this is a very important issue, and not just in Nebraska, but across the country.

No one wants these deaths to occur. They are just hugely tragic.

If you have more than 10 outside employees, guess what, you are no longer a family operation.

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I can state unequivocally Congress never intended for nonfinancial end-users to be subject to costly margin requirements.

We cannot justify that, and if that can be fixed, and I believe it can quite easily be fixed, we in Congress should be fixing it.

I do look forward to hearing from the witnesses today regarding the details of your requests as well as your plans to carry out core missions and implement Dodd-Frank in a responsible manner.

20 percent of the earned income tax credit under your own analysis, 20 percent of the payments each year are improperly paid out.

The changes Congress made to the Budget Control Act simply raise more money to spend more money.

I don't know of a Senator that opposes it. Maybe there is one out there that I haven't come across yet.

Your agencies have an obligation to protect consumers, hopefully, from the next Madoff, MF Global, or Stanford.

As members of this committee, we, of course, have a responsibility to conduct oversight to ensure that hard-earned tax dollars of millions of Americans are spent appropriately, thoughtfully, wisely.

Would you be confident in testifying to the subcommittee today that under the current atmosphere, the current approaches, that Madoff could not repeat what he did some years ago?

It struck me as arbitrary and capricious.