"We can't be stepchildren twice in a row."
"I agree with both of you, we accomplished a great deal in the efforts to try and reauthorize CFTC."
"We have to have certainty. Whatever the rules are going to be, let us have certainty."
"We cannot allow this way of doing business to become the new norm."
"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 astronaut..."
"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."
"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."
"At the end of the day, the most effective conservation is conservation that helps save money, or actually makes money."
"the Chief is doing an outstanding job, and the agency is working through a lot of things that we have thrown at them."
"opening statement"