Leonard L. Boswell

If we don't give the tools to do the job, for example, to the IRS and if this fiscal cliff thing happens, they don't have the capacity to deal with their responsibility.

We have no other speakers. In closing, I feel like we've defined what the need is. This will be very helpful to the Nation's producers, and it's a step in the right direction. So I will urge agreement and support of H.R. 3158. And thank…

I thank the gentlewoman from California. So if we care about the future of our farmers and our young farmers, we must pass a 5-year farm bill, and we must do it before the August work period. So let's pass this bill today, and let's move…

I just want to thank you again for your attention and your dedication to this cause, Mr. Chairman. I've noticed that for years you and the ranking member have worked together, and you're doing the right thing. Thank you very much.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 132, line 23, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $22,000,000)''. Page 141, line 12, after the dollar amount…

So, in closing, I want to say this: Congress cannot wait to act. Network security hasn't kept up with network speed. This is the fundamental purpose of this bill. I encourage Members to begin to secure our networks through sharing…

I think it is clear to financiers that the hedging risk is a critical aspect of running a successful farm operation and doing so is good business for rural cooperatives and banks and producer communities.

I am proud to say that this Committee is genuinely the more bipartisan operation in the House of Representatives and I think you have just seen the reason why.

I feel it is an honor and privilege that Leonard Boswell, born in a tenant farmhouse, gets to be here today and bear testimony and make comment, that I am just proud to be part of the memory of Dwight Eisenhower.

Who would have ever thought Abilene, Kansas, somebody would end up as Supreme Allied Commander and President of this great country?

We are not making more land, we are just making a lot more people and how are we going to take care of that as we go down the road.

We are not making more land, we are making a lot more people.

Everybody in this country has a vested interest in agriculture. We all eat.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Iowa will be postponed. Amendment No. 3 Offered by Mr. Walz of Minnesota The Acting CHAIR…

I believe sometimes circumstances require us to re-evaluate priorities to deal with changing realities.

And so we decided to take it on. We were breaking our constitution in the State, and we took it on. And we worked with downtown, we worked with everybody across the State, and we came up with a solution and it's working. There's money in…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 122, line 10, strike ``Not'' and insert ``(a) Not''. Page 124, after line 7, insert the following: (b) It is the sense…

Programs in Title I of the farm bill, like ACRE, Livestock Indemnity, and other disaster assistance programs are critical to maintaining our food supply and its affordability.

We found, in our hearings across the country a month ago, what we need out there, available to our producers, is affordable, and viable crop insurance.

Pay to play, that is a pretty good little term, and I think it rings very true.

Don't be afraid to put daylight on it, transparency. And if you are doing it right, keep doing it right.

The goal of the legislation was and is to give transparency to the over-the-counter derivatives market and, at the same time, not to hinder the ability of folks like yourselves.

If you didn't cause the problem, why are you in so much oversight?

Our goal should not punish the end-users who, like consumers, were victims in the financial crisis.