David Scott

Nothing could be more important right now than making sure we have a healthy financial system, and not just to have the financial system, but the most healthy financial system in the world.

There is a breakdown of management there that has to be fixed for us to do proper oversight.

It makes it very difficult to do a good job when you don't have the testimony prior to the meetings.

Madam Chair, I hope we will start taking note of when we actually receive testimony.

We have to make sure in this immensely complicated and competitive financial system that the poor, that those at the lower income, are not taken advantage of.

This is a free enterprise system; it is a free financial system. And when you live in a free system you are free to do good and you are free to do bad.

Yours is a difficult job. It is probably the most challenging job in Washington, quite honestly.

Ken Spearman became the absolute first African American Chairman of the Farm Credit Administration.

Access to credit is vital for America.

We will never be able to fully de-risk financial markets because we all know that fully de-risking markets is not what is best for the average American.

I call to your remembrance the situation with the London Whale, I believe it was, where proprietary funds, banks' customers' funds were used for risky bets.

The Volcker Rule must stay in place.

May we add an amendment to that so it will go out that the House Agriculture Committee has always been and will always be powerful and influential.

What I am talking about is this rapid expansion of technology. Technology is being driven so fast that it is eliminating jobs.

We should not be focused on weakening Dodd-Frank.

A priority of mine has always been to help the little guy.

We need a new pricing formula for dairy farmers that's going to allow dairy farmers to cover their cost of production.

Our plan is not to utilize human labor to pack it either.

This is a crisis. This is a serious crisis. And you mentioned those three things. You mentioned climate, water, and labor.

What a powerful, powerful message that would send. Republicans and Democrats working together to lift up our 1890s African American institutions.

And my recommendation to him was that we do a report card for each state...

That is like giving you something with one hand and slapping you in the face with the other, and that has to stop.

H.R. 51 is a very, very strong bipartisan effort to provide our 1890 universities with student scholarships in the amount of $1 million for each of the 5 years, $95 million for all of the 1890s over the 5 year period of the farm bill.

We recommend reauthorizing the Socially Disadvantaged Initiative (Section 2501) Program at a level not less than $20 million per year.

I want to single out Farm Credit and AgSouth for the great job that they are doing.