Austin Scott

Access to credit is even more essential to keeping farmers and ranchers producing a safe, affordable, and abundant supply of food and fiber for America and the rest of the world.

We cannot win a fight overseas if we cannot get our equipment there.

Every day our young rural citizens look around them, assess their lives, and try to make the best choices they can about their futures.

I don't know if you intended to destroy any future political career. But you just did. Yours, not ours.

We have to maintain the merchant marine fleet.

This is an emotional argument that is not based on the facts in any way, shape, or form.

I would appreciate your input and your support as we go forward in the next farm bill to make sure that if somebody is selling what is labeled as extra virgin olive oil, it actually is extra virgin olive oil if it is purchased off the…

Providing investment capital can further link agricultural producers with the global economy.

I look forward to the creative ideas from our witnesses about how we can grow opportunities and rebuild rural communities.

I look forward to a great discussion on the program changes necessary to keep pace with the needs of producers of all sizes.

It is an important part of who we are as America, and I look forward to continuing to support you.

Thank you, Mr. Scott, and Mr. Lee, you are recognized for 5 minutes.

Eighty percent, and do the shellers support your farm bill position and the buying points support it as well?

Unfortunately too many feel they have more opportunities somewhere else, and when they leave, they leave behind hollowed-out communities.

The American flag should probably be more prominently displayed on the package.

if you don't like being dependent on foreign oil, wait until you are dependent on foreign sources of food.

As we look at this farm bill we know that farmers' net income is down 50 percent, and that's the backdrop that we're going to consider as we write the next farm bill.

we are writing to ask your support for rebuilding infrastructure in rural America

I believe there were a number of problems in the health insurance market before the Affordable Care Act passed.

So why would we allow the health insurance industry, who controls, through their contracts, who our doctor is, who our pharmacist is, which medicine we can get, and which hospital we can go through to being exempt from the antitrust laws…

I also think that patients, physicians, pharmacists, people who work in the hospitals, would tell you that many of the problems that existed have been made worse by the lack of competition in the health insurance industry today.

I just wanted to take a second to thank my long-time friend and colleague David Scott.

But, there is no travel ban to Iran.

But, there is no travel ban in Iran, and, quite honestly, they are a much greater threat to American citizens than Cuba.

So we don't have travel bans to countries that are even more oppressive than that.