"OASCR provides the overall leadership, coordination, and direction of USDA's civil rights programs, including matters related to program delivery, compliance, equal employment opportunity."
"Thank you, Chairwoman Hayes. I appreciate your comments, and also your comments on OASCR and what has happened in the past."
"After years of issues--and I agree, it has crossed multiple Administrations--it would be beneficial to question Deputy Assistant Secretary Rainge about our agency, its future, how it is going to work ..."
"I know how important the Inspector General is. I did 30 years in the Air Force."
"As a great nation, we want to live up to our values and our morals and provide a good safety net to protect our citizens."
"We want to help people get out of poverty."
"We need to stress the education here."
"Thank you, Mr. Giacomi. Mrs. Cox?"
"We should review that. I think our taxpayers expect us to take a look at that and reduce those costs."
"Could you give us some insights on that as well?"
"Forty percent of our corn goes to ethanol, so this is huge, so this is such an important part of the Midwest economy."