We need to look at how to entice physicians, health care professionals of all kinds to come into rural areas.

If the Chairman will indulge me one more question, what do we need to do here to make sure that the VA can provide these sort of home-based services, make them available?

Policies intended to mitigate climate change and conventional pollution with the use of corn-ethanol have backfired badly. Rather than reduce greenhouse gas emissions, poorly-thought out ethanol mandates have increased them.

As more and more of our nation's public policy decisions involve the use of complex scientific information, it becomes more and more important that our policymaking institutions make use of such information in a process that is free of bias, is open to outside review and analysis, allows for the airing of divergent opinion, and is deliberative enough to ensure that the decisions we make are the right ones.