Are you aware the State of Missouri, the Show Me State, has enacted a law similar to the proposed GIPSA rule. I also understand the governor called a special session to repeal that law.

Both the Chairwoman and I, we have no other higher priority than to try to do the best we can to preserve that safety net.

I wish you could do it online, but I empathize with your situation.

I do not know what we have done to Mother Nature, but she sure has not been treating us very well.

I would like to associate myself with the remarks by the distinguished Senator who is doing everything he can to be of help to his state during difficult times.

If CFTC has done the analytical work, would you please provide it to this Committee?

I think it would be interesting to have a panel here with Mr. Conner and then have Ms. Born and then Mr. Cooper.

I believe you have done--this is not the way to deal with a Committee hearing.

I think it is just having a depressing impact on the whole economy, and I am not just talking about the Kansas wheat farmer.

CFTC oversight is a critically important function of this Committee, and I am looking forward to hearing from our witnesses today.

I fear some may suffer a classic case of the cure for Government regulations is more Government regulation.

I am concerned with yet another agency putting out a litany of regulations that will raise transaction costs, stifle legitimate economic activity, increase unemployment, and create new risks and uncertainty where it did not exist before.