Tom Harkin actually said...

Well, I appreciate your explanation. I may want to just get some more elaboration on that. But, you make a strong argument.

But, in the farm bill we put that money in there, including funds for technical assistance and personnel to carry it out, and we paid for it...

I know there are budget problems, but it just seems to me that this is one area where we can't back off--I'm concerned deeply about it.

We just can't back off of all the great strides we've started to make in conservation.