Unfortunately, that hasn't stopped the FDA from advancing regulations that are now crippling the cigar industry from top to bottom.

Thank you, Members of the Committee, for including my proposed language in last year's agricultural appropriations bill, which would have defunded the implementation of the FDA rule to regulate premium cigars in the same manner as…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and members for the opportunity to appear before you today.

I cannot stress enough the importance of having the Competitive Grant Program put in place in a timely manner.

the genius of the NEP is that it empowers local communities to take responsibility for managing their estuaries.

the health of America's estuaries... is directly related to the health and vitality of our communities and national economy.

last year a reauthorization of the National Estuary Program... was passed unanimously through Congress, demonstrating the strong bipartisan support for this important initiative.

Modernizing the ground based infrastructure is a key to continued U.S. dominance in space.

As policymakers, I think it's important that we all know what we don't know, and therefore, our attempts to predict the future impact of regulations are always speculative and subject to error.

You're telling me we're basing our regulatory decisions on assumptions about what the world will be like in 300 years.

I have always considered this to be one of the benefits to the legal entity regulation in the United States, and I wonder if we move toward the group supervision provisions, if it will alter our system?