I want to be certain that PAs are appropriately utilized by the VA to serve our veterans.
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.
A quarter to a third of what income we produce in agriculture comes from our ability to export agricultural commodities.
I assume that you would all concur with the reality that agriculture will be dramatically affected by a piece of legislation.
I am astonished by that, knowing what the consequences will be.
If this Waxman-Markey bill does not include agriculture offsets... we will be at a horrible, horrible disadvantage in agriculture.
If we are setting the template... we ought to make certain that we do it right, as compared to just do it.
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.
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 me...