I appreciate your work in bringing agriculture's voice to the Kansas Water Congress.

We must write a bill that works across our entire Nation.

I think personally speaking, from the Kansas provider perspective, it really still comes down to capital.

The strength of the current crop insurance partnership rests in the ability for a farmer or rancher to select products that meet their needs.

I think it is absolutely critical and touches the complete quality of life in rural America.

you really reflect the breadth of issues involved in what we call the farm bill, which is really the economic development plan for small towns in rural America, as well as food policy for everybody.

I really do want to start the hearing, though, by thanking Chairman Roberts for his years of leadership on issues important to American agriculture.

Fully funding CSP and EQIP is very important to the pork industry.

Well, we cannot close out this panel, Mr. Chairman, without my asking about something that we worked so hard on together related to livestock last time, which was a huge, important, new funding piece that we included.

I appreciate very much Kansas State University hosting us, and I thank President Myers for his welcome, and Secretary Jackie McClaskey.

I am also proud of the work that Senator Roberts and I did together to create new partnerships on funding research.

That is something we need to take a look at.

I think there is a lot of opportunity in what we call the bio-based economy that is really exciting.

Thank you, both of you, for your commitment to crop insurance.

I am very proud of the work that was done in a bipartisan way, and that is what we can do when we work together.

I am working to make Washington understand the differences between the economic conditions then and what you all are facing now.

To those who say passing a farm bill in this environment is a daunting task, I say together we can get it done.

Farmers and ranchers pulled themselves up from their bootstraps. They understand fiscal responsibility.

let me say first that I join with the distinguished Senator from West Virginia in expressing concern about our water infrastructure and water issues. As many of us know, we have had terrific challenges in Flint, MI, with an entire water…

Do you support having that basic set of essential services in our health-care system?

Under the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, actually seniors would begin to pay more.

Should we as women be paying more for health care because we are women?

Do you support returning to a gap in coverage for seniors under Medicare Part D?

I think competition is the key to getting good prices.

When we look at another really important set of provisions in the Affordable Care Act--it is something I call patient protections...