"I hope, again, with your leadership and this Committee's long record of support and commitment to dairy farmers that we are going to see that type of action and that type of help for a critical part of the American economy."
"Thank you, Mr. Scott, and thank you, Mr. Neugebauer, for holding this hearing."
"Dairy farms make up 70% of Connecticut's open space."
"This is a crisis that affects all of us, not just our dairy farmers."
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"In Nevada, we have a serious problem with high school completion."
"I have introduced legislation, the Every Student Counts Act, to address the dropout crisis that hasn't been fixed under the No Child Left Behind model."
"It just seems that, you know, this really should not be some child protection agency free zone where complaints can't be fielded and investigated."
"Again, in our work, I mean, we have just got to achieve a parody level in terms of just how you treat an injured minor child."
"That just takes my breath away, because I mean a lot of police departments, frankly, are not equipped to handle this type of investigation."
"Again, child abuse is child abuse, whether it happens in a home, whether it happens in a medical setting."