Government can be good and government can be bad.

I want to associate myself with the remarks of both the Ranking Member Stauber, my fellow Minnesotan, and Subcommittee Chair, Mr. Golden, about this bill.

I appreciate this bill. I think it is certainly unfortunate that we had to get to this point that the Executive Branch has been dragging its feet but the purposes of the original law and what is being done today are excellent.

I want to associate myself with Chairman Peterson's remarks at the beginning, that how important it is to keep our generational farmers in business when times are tough.

There are a number of ways that we in bipartisan fashion can work together in order to help all of our farmers.

Bringing certainty to the marketplace and expanding opportunities for our farmers would be very, very critical.

Where would we be if we couldn't have a vibrant agricultural base and we ended up having to import our food and things of that nature. We would be in big trouble.

Work for Welfare is a concept that is empowering for people. It is a fairness issue for the taxpayers, because if people are able-bodied to work, they should do so, just like the taxpayers do to make it possible.

The Chairman himself, Chairman Peterson, who interestingly enough succeeded my old boss, Congressman Stangeland, in 1990. He has made comments to say that these waivers aren't working, particularly in the State of Minnesota.

I support that. I hope the Speaker will bring that up at the proper time.

Our role of the Federal Government is to protect agriculture from imports that could disrupt our markets.