Roy Blunt

I think it was in the Senate bill. I don't know if it was in the final bill.

Well, what about the Healthy Watershed Initiatives in the Mississippi River?

I think where you have trading partners that change the rules after things have been shipped and then wouldn't even let this be shipped back--it was there and it sat there until it lost value--is a problem.

When people travel, the foreign travelers stay longer than domestic travelers. They spend more, and when they leave, they almost always like us a whole lot better than they did when they came.

Putting all the eggs in a renewable basket I believe is a mistake.

Mr. O'Brien, on the rural housing rental assistance, what are you doing with that under the current budget?

This is a problem that many members of the Senate want to work with you to help solve.

These have been good times for agriculture, but also challenging times for agriculture.

Every time we make rules and regulations that are either impossible to comply with or you do have to comply and it's too expensive, the poorest customers are the customers that are most dramatically impacted by this.

I think that this important Department needs somebody who is confirmed, and in charge, and ready to take hold.

Approving a new project here, a brand new project, I don't think would be the right thing to do.

I think this is a big mistake for these cooperatives.

Rural development makes a real difference in the rural communities.

I believe it is going to turn out to be a noncontroversial nomination.

This is something the Chairman has felt strongly about.

Thank you, Mayor Foxx, for being here and stepping up and being willing to take this responsibility.

We have to have trained people doing this job.

The original bill had no defined time-frame and many members were concerned how that may be interpreted.

I'm assuming, Mr. Bainwol, your point is that all recalls are not equal?

We wanted to ensure that as an organization that we didn't just support a bill for the sake of supporting it.

I wish to talk a bit about the health care bill. Every time I am home, I hear more and more concerns from more and more families and more and more individuals and more and more employers. In 2009, the President repeatedly said that if you…

And for the second year in a row, OIG has found that USDA doesn't comply with the Improper Payments and Recovery Act, because of the complexity of these programs?

In Missouri, agriculture is always considered the number one driver of our economy.

I think we need to--I'll look forward to your response to that as you have a chance to look at what if anything can be done so that you don't have locations just set up to game the system and do it within the rules of the system.

We all know the size of Government has grown beyond its means, which is why we have to prioritize what we do.