no farm will escape the effect of this bill.

I am very concerned about the effect the House-passed American Clean Energy and Security Act...will have on agriculture producers.

I urge you to address this early and to really figure out innovative and creative ways that we can make sure it gets to those people that you talk about that do not have the resources to come in with a huge grant writing capability.

I hope that you will give strong consideration to educational programs about communicating to all Americans what is contained in those dietary guidelines.

Let me just assure you that there will be bipartisan support on the Hill to see about the implementation of that plan.

this is a budget-driven decision, which means that somebody's going to be at risk.

I think we have some serious decisions that we're going to have to make with respect to what I treat as basically recommendations coming out of DOD.

I fully believe that it is not the threat of enemy aircraft, but the threat of enemy SAMs and their proliferation that represents the true threat to our forces today.

Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman, and you are right, it is certainly above my brain's capacity to understand all the complexities of this industry.

It is the folks that are in the business every day that have the understanding of this rather than those who deal with so many other things on a daily basis.

There has been a lot of conversation and critique of the markets over the past year with respect to what is called 'excessive speculation,' and that speculators drove up the physical commodities to record high prices.

It is going to be a lot cheaper to fund you to regulate than it will be to go through another situation that we are trying to recover from now.