Sam Brownback

The President has provided a directive to us to accelerate the implementation of the energy provisions of the farm bill.

I think it is a critical diplomatic program. I think it is a critical humanitarian program.

We are working with our credit friends, Farm Credit and others, to try to figure out strategies and ways in which we can make resources available or restructure the resources we have.

I would hope one would look at that as an asset and not a liability, and say, 'This is where we would really like to maintain that market share.'

Programs that will increase demand such as the Drive America Forward Act sponsored by Senators Stabenow and Brownback would be helpful.

Why not look at it that way?

Wouldn't they atrophy themselves over time then, and why wouldn't you let it take the natural course?

But this is a catastrophe.

If your sales force isn't costing you anything, why would you cut them off?

I hope people watching this see the problems with having government run a private sector business.

USDA touches each American's life multiple times a day, food, housing programs, research and assistance.

I just think we have got to somehow get our pencils sharper on the amount that we are going at the administration and transportation number.

I do hope you really get on top of that cost issue because it's going to kill people if we don't get on top of it.

I want to know what you've done with it.

We are losing a lot of population in rural areas.

The point I wanted to make is it is a corn-soy blend. Great. All for corn-soy. But this formulation has not been changed in 30 years.

I would love to see us try to figure a way that you could maintain safety but also get access to people who are terminally ill.

I would hope that you and the new team that comes in at FDA would look at this and say this is a major problem for us

I'm very troubled about the cost of developing a new drug nowadays.

It's the Wild West on the Internet without that data.

I also think it is very, very, very helpful to the Midwest that Iowa is the first caucus.

If you took that corn-soy blend and you added proper levels of iodine, zinc, vitamin A, and iron into it for children at the right age, you would have dramatic impact.

I hope you can work with us on this because I thought what Kessler did was spot on when he looked at this real crisis that was existing and we've got a cancer crisis now.

Yeah. It was a fabulous move and they really sped it up and thankfully because they did people lived and now we're slowing it down for a lot of others and people die.

It has broad bipartisan support. People like that one. It is good.