"I appreciate your bringing this issue up, and I think you are absolutely right."
"We need to have a more common-sense approach."
"I do not think--it is probably not going to be accurate to suggest that the slight increase that we have seen recently in prices is directly related to that purchase."
"There is a phenomenal statistic on the Chesapeake Bay, which I learned recently, which is that 99 percent of the cultivated acres in the Chesapeake Bay Area have at least some conservation practice be..."
"I think Pennsylvania has received almost--I think it is--if it is not the number one state in terms of resources in this effort, it is the number two state in the watershed."
"Secretary Vilsack has announced he is going to dust off the proposed GIPSA marketing rule that resulted from language included in the 2008 Farm Bill."
"We are now stymied by an embargo that has certainly outlived its purpose."
"Budgets are oftentimes a lot about numbers. But behind each of these numbers, there are individuals and people that we care deeply about."
"This is a budget, Mr. Chairman, that also will allow for an expansion of local and regional food systems in the bio-based economy."
"Candidly, I am at the point now where folks have raised concerns about trails and a variety of other facets of the Forest Service that we are not going to do what we have done in the past, which is tr..."
"Hopefully, this is the year that Congress get serious about fire suppression."
"I would say that I suspect that some of these rules may very well be finalized and some of these rules may be proposed, given the nature of the concerns that were expressed in the past."