Eric Crawford actually said...

"I thank our witnesses today. One of the things that I always want to encourage our witnesses is that you come up here and give us almost an hour and a half of your time."

"In just 3 years, net farm income has fallen by 56 percent."

"I believe it is time to look beyond the farm safety net for budget savings and deficit reduction, as our farmers have already been asked to shoulder their fair share of the burden."

"You have to go back to the start of the Great Depression to find a comparable collapse in net farm income."