06/05/2012
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"I do believe that this is one of the pieces of legislation that may be the most detrimental, damaging things that we could do to agriculture, to farmers and ranchers, to small businesses across the co..."
"This is a huge tax increase. It is a tax increase so large that it could pay for the commodity title of the 2008 Farm Bill 24 times over."
"We are here, I think, to determine the success of that fix, and I hope we learn that from the CFTC."
"We have been through this a long time. We have had a long conversation and discussion in Congress about a broad Zelener fix."