It is safe to say that in the history of ill-conceived Federal lawmaking, no law has failed as magnificently and predictably as the President's misguided and misleading effort at health care reform.

I will continue to work to repeal the President's health law to ensure that these premium increases are not fully realized.

It's important for the department to maintain a leadership role in the review process outlined in the coordinated framework.

People think of Kansas as a model agricultural state, i.e., we are a lot more involved in a lot of other things.

Thank you for the opportunity to go to Michigan on our first hearing and learn firsthand for so many specialty crop growers just how important this whole endeavor is, not only to Michigan, but all over the country.

Too many questions. Are there any funds available through Section 32 to address the disaster we are going through with the mid-west floods and the drought?

Let's just say everything is on the table and then let this Committee do it, because we have a lot of experience on this Committee in regards to what we should be doing, as opposed just to a numbers game.

The State of Kansas and Kansas City University were selected to be the home of the new national bio and agri defense facility.

The fact that you pointed out that you have an 8 percent growth in regards to organic right in the middle of a recession I think is remarkable.

We must, but everything should be on the table and it should not be disproportionate with other programs.

I think a lot of this, Madam Chairwoman, is the impact of crop insurance and how it fits in and the problems that we have had in regards to crop insurance.

He deserves a lot of credit for doing that and I know the department is doing its best to do exactly that.