Leonard L. Boswell: “If you are being muzzled or if you can't come up here and tell us what we need to know--I mean, you are an expert.”

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.

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 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.

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.