I believe we need to have five active and engaged Commissioners, overseeing the important work of the agency.

My understanding--and this has been misreported--is that both nominees are simply nominated to positions on the Commission.

Mr. President, I rise today to speak to the Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act or the farm bill. The chair, ranking member, and all of the members of the Senate Agriculture Committee have worked very hard in a bipartisan manner on this…

Mr. President, given that it is an election year, the American people are going to hear a lot of highly charged political rhetoric over the next few months. They are likely already tired of what they have heard. The Arkansans I talked with…

But it seems like there is almost complete agreement here that the mechanism that the EU has chosen to solve the problem as they see it is not reasonable, it is unreasonable. I think that it's illegal.

Mr. President, this week marks the 49th annual National Small Business Week, a time to celebrate the innovations, ideas, and hard work of our entrepreneurs. Small businesses are the backbone of our economy, accounting for 65 percent of new…

So do you have authority over DOD, also, or just VA?

My concern is, you know, that we have a culture somewhat that just is difficult to deal with these things.

I think the point that you made, Madam Chair, about if we could really give these folks a realistic idea of what is going on...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and we appreciate all of you being here, and a special welcome to our two new members.

Mr. President, it is a pleasure to be with the senior Senator from Arkansas discussing somebody for whom we both have a great deal of affection; that is, the former Congressman of the Third District of Arkansas, the district I used to…