"Senator Roberts really was the founder of the whole effort on crop insurance, and I was pleased to take that to the next step in the last farm bill for specialty crops."
"Eleven million people would become unemployed if that lock shut down, even for a few weeks, and the North American economy would enter a severe recession."
"We all know, in this room, that your infrastructure is aging and needs work."
"Clearly coal, copper and those big, bulk commodities, railway lines and infrastructure and ports are absolutely required."
"I have always said to have an economy and to have a middle class, you have to make things and grow things."
"If you are confirmed will you commit to working with me and working with the industry and all of colleagues who care about this, to use administrative authority available to you to provide our Nation'..."
"It is clear the President has focused on making things, which I appreciate in Michigan, but not growing things, which is equally important."
"I am very concerned about the cuts in President Trump's budget as it relates to those things."
"I feel this morning, after listening to each of our witnesses, I want to say, Amen, to each of you and also indicate that it is not only National Water Day, it is National Ag Day. And we will not have..."
"We have lost close to 5 million jobs in our country as a result of currency manipulation and related practices."
"I have a saying that, as we talk about trade, we should export our products, not our jobs."