02/25/2009
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"We gratefully also thank Ranking Member Costa and Congressman Schilling for joining."
"we want to do what we can as Members of the Committee, you all, and certainly as Americans, to try to arrest the potential decline of rural America."
"rural America faces a critical time, and broadband service, postal service, economic development in small town rural America is critical in the judgment of all of us to the future of America."
"I am honored to serve as the Ranking Member on your Subcommittee, and we all look forward to working together as we reform the 2012 Farm Bill."