"I want to thank Congressman Hare for his leadership on reintroducing this bill."
"This legislation is beneficial in improving patient care for our Nation's veterans."
"I want to be certain that PAs are appropriately utilized by the VA to serve our veterans."
"this means a huge tax increase."
"Mr. Secretary, welcome to the Agriculture Committee. When we first met in this room back in January, I invited you to Kansas, and I would again extend that invitation."
"H.R. 2454 is a cap-and-tax bill."
"this legislation could be one of the most detrimental policy changes we will consider this Congress."
"If this Waxman-Markey bill does not include agriculture offsets... we will be at a horrible, horrible disadvantage in agriculture."
"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."
"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..."
"So what we are doing is we are transferring wealth, income from those who can least afford it, at least in this example of Kansas and our mean income, to those who are better able to afford it."