Tom Harkin actually said...

Thank you all very much for all of your past things that you have done on behalf of agriculture and health in America.

But to counter back that, somehow or other, we are responsible as corn farmers for the chopping down of the trees of Brazil or anyplace else...

When you enter public life like this, it is a family affair; no doubt about it.

I think Secretary Vilsack has been actively engaged in dialogs regarding communications, from what I have heard.