Harold Volkmer: “Except in the current farm program, you have to crop the land in order to participate in the program.”

I appreciate the ruling of the Chair, and it is very apparent to me and, I hope, to Members of this House that the majority does not want any of the minority, anybody, talking about ethics questions on the floor of the House. They just do…

That report, it is a report by any other name is a report, ought to be published and the Members of this House ought to know what is in it. More importantly, the American public ought to know what is in it.

I not only am a lover of cats, but I love flowers, and flowers are very beautiful, and what I saw developing as this bill passed through the House, passed through the Senate, started in the conference up to Wednesday was a beautiful…

this is for the purpose of making it clear that the appropriation on further studies and evaluations by this office over USDA will only be prospective for the coming year. It does not include any evaluation and studies that are ongoing at…