Thomas Ewing: “In the appropriation process, has the gentleman found that just large expenditures and new money make a program better?”

So, then, if I understand the gentleman, if a farmer exports grain to a country that the director of the Office of Religious Persecution Monitoring deems to contain responsible entities engaged in religious persecution, and exports that…

As included in the bill before us, the core principles will be, by their nature, flexible standards. Accordingly, a regulated entity would have reasonable discretion in making determinations as to how it will meet these requirements…

The gentleman knows, I am sure, that sugar prices are at an all-time low; they have not been this low in years.

This congressional session conclusion reminds me of the wonderful changing seasons on the Illinois prairie. Each year we are amazed by the God-given change in seasons, which works so well and even survives the most intense of storms to…