The EPA needs to reject this rule, recognize and admit that it broke the law, and then move to correct and say this will never happen again.

Experts believe that over 70 percent of our groves are infected, and we have seen a dramatic decrease in production.

Will you commit to me today that, as the law requires, you will base your decisions in the EPA on sound science, and only on sound science?

I am concerned about how long it takes for the EPA to approve new products, as we just talked about, for the farmers or the growing communities.

I am also concerned that the EPA is drifting away from its goal set by Congress, which includes decisions based on sound science, rather than on input from outside groups trying to limit the use of the safe options for farmers.

Can you explain any reasons for this delay?

I thank our colleagues for supporting this bipartisan legislation that will ensure that Jordan has the tools that it needs to confront regional challenges.

Well, that is something. If you take it back because nobody wants to put more money into a program like that...

I just want to express how thankful I am that you are here bringing this up as the importance of it, how it would affect this market.

It would be hard to really comprehend or tabulate that. It would be in the hundreds of billions of dollars from what I have seen, just on the beef side.

The billions of dollars that it would cost production here, the food supply here, plus our export markets.