Pat Roberts: “Dodd-Frank in its implementation placed many burdens on our end-users, our farmers and our ranchers.”

We are in a dire fix. We are trying to write a farm bill here, and it is with a backdrop of severe budget limitations.

We have long said that rural residents deserve the same quality health care as their urban counterparts.

I do not want to get picked off by all of a sudden saying 'no' to the critical access or moving to some other thing without really knowing where we are going.

I continue to hear in farm country the dire need to expand and explore new markets.