Frank Lucas

We can't be stepchildren twice in a row.

I appreciate those kind comments and the kind efforts of both you and Mr. Walz over an extended period as we put the wondrous, amazing thing called the 2014 Farm Bill together.

I would like to visit with you about an issue I brought up in February with Secretary Vilsack about cover crops.

We cannot allow this way of doing business to become the new norm.

We have to have certainty. Whatever the rules are going to be, let us have certainty.

I agree with both of you, we accomplished a great deal in the efforts to try and reauthorize CFTC.

Just to mention to the gentlelady, I have no additional speakers, and I believe I have the right to close.

I want to thank the gentleman from Colorado for his amendment that would complement the provisions in the bill ensuring a public nomination process and seeking greater balance. I appreciate the gentleman's efforts to improve this…

I thank the gentleman from West Virginia. I, too, want the best and brightest. That is why the core principle of the bill is on disclosure, make sure we know where the money goes. Mr. McKinley is taking this to the next point in this focus…

I would note to the gentlelady, at the present time I do not have any additional speakers, so whenever you are prepared to close, I believe I have the right to close ultimately.

Depending on what the EPA determines on Waters of the U.S., and a myriad of other rulings, it literally could turn us inside out.

Denying information to ASAP, or Congress, about the Commercial Crew Program is unacceptable when the hardworking American taxpayers are footing the bill for the program and the safety of our astronauts is on the line.

Using cover crops is a good conservation practice.

I am concerned that the proposed rule would unnecessarily harm a significant number of community financial institutions.

The Chief is doing an outstanding job, and the agency is working through a lot of things that we have thrown at them.

At the end of the day, the most effective conservation is conservation that helps save money, or actually makes money.

Any farmer will tell you that, right along with their children and their grandchildren, they have no greater asset than the soil on their farm.

Today, we are still experiencing what some have described as the 'worst recovery ever' because in no other recession did it take this long to recover lost jobs.

We can all agree on one thing: we want a healthy economy where Americans are working and earning a sustainable wage to support their families.

Good people of different opinions working to try to achieve the common goal is still what this legislative body should be all about.

The point of the pilots covering a range of strategies each within a rigorous evaluation is to ensure Congress has the necessary information to make informed decisions about how to help SNAP recipients in the future.

We know that many families on SNAP are working, but there are others who have not been able to find employment or earn enough to no longer require Federal food assistance.

The work pilots we will be talking about today are a response to that need, incorporating multiple provisions initially contained in the House-passed farm bill.

We can all agree on one thing: We want to help the economy where Americans are working and earning a sustainable wage to support their families.

With that, I yield 4\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Yoho). (Mr. YOHO asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)