Tim Walz

I understand why people are hesitant to speak out sometimes, but we need to cultivate those relationships and hope that not tomorrow, but longer-term, this will turn in the right direction.

I am glad that Congressman Walz is here, and you mentioned about your trip to Tibet.

I do not have any basis for hope.

This nation rejects torture in all forms, no matter what any private individual may express.

Candidly to you nearly 30 years of visiting and certainly subjective from my position, it felt worse to me than it ever has.

I appreciate his advocacy for our producers in the first district of Minnesota.

A lot of good food for thought helping us prepare as we go forward.

Yes, there is a generational difference, and the folks that I think we need to be most concerned about are those who have started farming in, let's say, the last 10 years or 5 years in particular where they started at a time of very high…

I want to thank you, Dr. Outlaw, for that articulate statement on crop insurance.

Risk management is critical.

Real farm incomes are at a 20+ year low. It doesn't look like a lot of relief is on the horizon.

We wrote that farm bill in a very good time for the bad times.

So you see a real impact, all right.

If we are producing energy in America, regardless of where it has come from, that is a good thing.

We should not be in the business of picking winners and losers, and we should make sure that these industries have the opportunity.

The strategic need for the F-35, I think everyone knows that.

There is a perception issue both in what they are going to get and what they expect to get.

I think we need to take more of the lead on this. I think we need to make sure, because I think as science moves along, the research possibilities are still out there, and I think we are shutting doors.

But I would suggest to my colleagues here, why were we so willing to give up to the executive branch the authority to make these decisions, and why we gave away our power with the expiration of the Agent Orange Act.

Is it naive of me to think that after 25 years of that and the biennial reviews by the National Academy of Sciences, a meta-analysis of all the research that was out there, did we just do a wonderful job of picking the last two things they…

Last summer when the Agent Orange Act was coming to expire, 53 of us co-sponsored that and it ended with a whimper without even a floor vote.

I think our issue, especially with these toxic wound exposures in battle, it differs from cancer...

I think it's important information with the hearing that's going to be next week up in New Hampshire with Ms. Kuster.

My concern is, though, when do we make a decision that we've tried hard enough or that we've reached that point.

We treat addiction after it is there, good luck.