Tim Walz

We should show great concern that our producers are showing this level of concern

If a farmer builds a fence that does not comply with NRCS standards, the cloud then is that he has violated the Clean Water Act.

We need to keep in mind, that leaves about 250 million Americans who we have to educate about this process.

Now, that is very difficult for me to explain to my producers in any way possible, and you are not making that case.

The biggest mistake here was, it does not feel to me that there was enough of that input.

I just--and I am trying to get this, and you are hearing the frustration.

I do worry, and the gentleman from Ohio brought up a great point, that we have to be very careful in doing this so that we don't disincentivize people that want to do this right.

Did you anticipate there would be this type of, I guess, concern and level of concern? Did it surprise you when you heard this or were you prepared for that?

I want to thank my friend also for giving us this opportunity to discuss the issue of clean water, the impact on agriculture and conservation and our rural communities.

Conservation is this Subcommittee's bread and butter too.

We all know that this is a business where there are lots of uncertainties.

I represent the Mayo Clinic and they tell me, the Vista system in the VA is the best medical record in the world.

I know my colleague gave a kind introduction and associated you and I together as friends, but I think Harry Truman was right.

And patriotism and nationalism were not synonymous.

None of those things can happen if we don't talk about them.

What about 30-year-old and younger Chinese?

What do we need to do? Because it is about the personal, it is about remembering those names...

Democracy isn't just elections--it's freedom of the press, which can get at corruption, which is a key issue for China.

It's critical for us to understand and it's certainly critical for us as Americans to do soul-searching of our own.

If we do not commemorate and we do not remember those who were willing to risk all, it puts all of us at risk of history forgetting the lessons that were there.

I think many of them, once they knew, would stand proudly with those fighters of human rights.

You can easily prove that grass doesn't grow. Take a chair, go out into your yard, and sit for several hours watching the grass.

I'm fascinated by this because I see this--you mentioned something and you said never in your diplomatic career had you seen such a misnomer of the reality.

I think your point about it here is, we can't agree it's Tuesday in this body.

It is so refreshing to hear the rejection of the simplistic look at things and to get at the heart of this.