"Yes, absolutely, they will. And, you know, this is definitely a signal that the current president wants to take the courts in a different direction."
"that gives me a great deal of concern because, obviously, at least a couple of times in the past, there have been issues about the Chinese government issuing travel visas to our inspectors who want to..."
"beyond visas, my understanding is that we give more advance notice for foreign inspections than we do domestic inspections in general."
"I suspect that a one-size-fits-all approach could be harmful to my local farmers."
"If we don't carve out the Chesapeake Bay from this inspection regime, then the ecosystem is at risk."
"The politics are interesting."
"this farm loan assistance for socially disadvantaged farmers has got a lot of them upset, because an agency that they thought was color-blind is now color-preferenced."
"it looks like it has become very political."
"I am a little concerned that the SNAP program is not also being utilized to do the nutritional, education, and provide nutritional foods."
"Yeah, that wastewater and drinking water, those revolving loans and grants, they are very, very important to our rural communities."
"I think one thing the pandemic showed us is that we do need to have an aggressive research position, government-funded research that might not be funded by the private sector in anticipation of threat..."
"5 million, but the authorization is up to 50. So hopefully we can get moving on some of that."