Mike Braun

WOTUS is the thing I hear the most in bailiwick of agriculture.

I am worried about owning more in the future.

I think we are probably on somewhat the same wave length.

I don't know how that could be sold to the American public as a sustainable, healthy business plan.

Well good luck with it, because it's never generated more than a 17½ percent, percentage on tax revenues as a percentage of our GDP over 50 years. Therefore, I think you're being dishonest with the American public.

I think it is even more important for these solutions to probably be crafted in the States where the rubber meets the road.

We are currently running nearly $1.5 trillion in deficits each year, and that is roughly 30 percent of our budget.

We are transitioning everywhere across America, where we obviously got an underpaid workforce.

I have got a bill out there, the JOBS Act, with Senator Kaine that would allow Pell grants to be used for this type of training and certification.

It needs to be fixed. It needs to be saved.

This is a Committee that in the time I have been here, we have covered more terrain--we really can't legislate through it, but we can talk about a lot of issues.

We are transitioning everywhere across America, where we obviously got an underpaid workforce.

I think it is even more important for these solutions to probably be crafted in the States where the rubber meets the road.

We are currently running nearly $1.5 trillion in deficits each year, and that is roughly 30 percent of our budget.

I do believe that as we move toward an Indiana--and I know other States are doing the same--toward having some type of training standards, that those training standards, once an individual has them, they will be empowered to negotiate with…

I have got a bill out there, the JOBS Act, with Senator Kaine that would allow Pell grants to be used for this type of training and certification.

This is a Committee that in the time I have been here, we have covered more terrain--we really can't legislate through it, but we can talk about a lot of issues.

It needs to be fixed. It needs to be saved.

We could certainly lessen the damage in the short run, but I think it's pretty clear from the evidence that that will work for if we can do it at a really transformational scale over the next decade, perhaps two decades.

Should we be harvesting more timber then as a prevention for it?

I do not think the SEC should be one of them.

I believe Congress should be smart on the entire discussion of climate, including Republicans.

We could certainly lessen the damage in the short run, but I think it's pretty clear from the evidence that that will work for if we can do it at a really transformational scale over the next decade, perhaps two decades.

Should we be harvesting more timber then as a prevention for it?

Thank you Mr. Chairman. Interesting topic. I'm from the Midwest, Indiana, and I think the only bonafide tree farmer in the U.S. Senate is Greg Therapy.