"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 clarity and certainty."
"I am honored that Chairman Conaway has asked me to serve the Committee this Congress by chairing our newest Subcommittee."
"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..."
"the goal should be the harder you work the more you earn, and the more you have."
"Providing relief to the end-user community through much-needed clarifications of the law will continue to be my focus on this Committee."
"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?"
"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."
"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 pa..."