12/05/2011
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"crop insurance really helps you to mitigate the risk when you have--with the weather volatility, market volatility, whatever there is"
"I oppose, as many members of this Committee do, the proposal in the President's budget that would cut $8.4 billion from the Crop Insurance Program."
"I was just with a number of farmers at my weekly Minnesota morning meeting, and they are really excited that we are moving ahead with these hearings."
"Senator Grassley and I are both in favor of that, and I know that Justice Kagan, when she testified at her confirmation hearing, was in favor of that on the Supreme Court level."