On the recordJune 19, 2013
I thank the gentlelady from South Dakota for yielding to me, and I wanted to come to the floor in opposition, also, of this amendment. I've seen what this research does, and I've watched as we've gone from no industry to an industry now that's utilizing the products that the gentlelady from South Dakota has said, from animal fats, for soy oil, and it has cheapened up our energy supply and has cleaned up our air, and it's made us a better country because of it. This research that gets done--we should remember that there isn't always a return on that research investment. That's why we do research. That's why we do research in our universities, for example. And so with that research we can find those things that make us more efficient. I remember when the research labs said it was impossible to get the energy out of the feed grains that we now turn into energy. We've exceeded that because of research. And to utilize these animal fats has dramatically been changed a lot because of the research that takes place here with this fund. So I think this is a piece that we need to preserve so that we can preserve the efficiency that's there and we can preserve the education.
