10/06/2009
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"We had this conservation with the previous panel and one of my concerns is about our competitiveness."
"That is how difficult it is. That is the reason I keep saying this next decade is going to be extremely difficult."
"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."