Austin Scott

Pollination is the real issue for our food supply.

Some tests are requested for grade determining factors to cross-check or verify the FGIS results.

Mr. Chairman, most of the questions that I have, or that I had, have been asked by you or Mr. Walz.

I don't think we ever intended in the drafting of the farm bill for a crop that was not harvested to be counted against a farmer's generic base.

Our goal is certainly not to guarantee everybody a profit, or anybody a profit, I should say.

Prudent regulatory compliance requires market participants to make informed business decisions, long prior to the effective date of any regulation.

This is one where I do believe that without a uniform standard, we are going to see tremendous increases in the cost of groceries for the American citizen.

One of my concerns is not only that this labeling stop at the state level but that you could actually see individual counties and municipalities trying to come up with their own labeling standards.

The term biotechnology, is a more accurate description of what we are using to get across where we actually use less pesticides and less herbicides.

We will continue to look for a healthy balance between market access and market integrity, so that the markets meet the needs of those who use them to hedge.

We won't be repealing Dodd-Frank and we won't be working to weaken its market-wide protections of Title VII, but, we will be looking to see where our actions can clarify Congressional intent, minimize regulatory burdens, and most…

Last week, Chairman Conaway laid out three principles for guiding the Committee's work: derivatives markets exist to meet the needs of hedgers; regulatory requirements should be both minimized and justified; and regulations should provide…

It has been noted many times before this Committee, but always bears repeating, that derivatives markets are essential not only to the farmers, ranchers, and end-users who utilize them, but to our broader economy.

I am honored that Chairman Conaway has asked me to serve the Committee this Congress by chairing our newest Subcommittee.

Biotechnology has made our life better, whether it is through pharmaceuticals or whether it is through our crops.

My goal throughout this process is to ensure that we have a healthy balance between market integrity and market access.

How would it impact our ability to provide affordable and nutritious food to the American families, and would it not raise the cost of food, thereby hurting low-income Americans more than anybody?

the goal should be the harder you work the more you earn, and the more you have.

One of the Agriculture Committee's top priorities for this year is to again pass legislation to reauthorize the CFTC.

I look forward to an update on the Commission's continued rulemaking as they go forward, and I believe about 80 percent of the rules have been completed.

What can the CFTC do to help to remedy these delays? Do you need additional authority in the Commodity Exchange Act in order to help in resolving this issue?

Providing relief to the end-user community through much-needed clarifications of the law will continue to be my focus on this Committee.

If in a state's application they said that we were not going to allow somebody who lost their job because they failed a drug test to receive Federal SNAP benefits, would the Secretary allow that as part of the application process?

The problem that comes then is for the man and the woman that is getting up there every day and going to work... It is pretty frustrating for them to see somebody who maybe loses their job or doesn't go to work because they fail a drug…

I don't think that working people's tax dollars and their wages should be going to pay for SNAP benefits for people who are failing drug tests.