03/25/2009
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"Organic sales also contribute to an overgrowing--reaching nearly 29 billion in 2010."
"Thank you very much, and I want to thank both Senator Leahy and Senator Lugar, who are very distinguished former Chairs of this committee."
"Sales of U.S. specialty crops top $65 billion annually with nearly 2 billion of those sales coming from Michigan alone."
"I think Senator Stabenow has seen how valuable they are to this country as a whole, and some the goals that our nation has."