"We are putting pressure on these guys to make enough money to stay in business, and then this is what happens."
"I would like to see us go back and look at the CFMA in 2000."
"So, we should go back and look at what we did and get some people to give us some kind of a sense of what our culpability in this whole situation is."
"The regulators are doing as best as they can given the tools that they have."
"The State Association of Kansas Watersheds (SAKW) supports funding of the P.L. 83-566 (PL-566) watershed program as an inclusion in the Conservation Title of the 2012 Farm Bill."
"How many Federal programs can show a return on investment of 15-25% for each and every year since the early 1950's that the PL-566 program can."
"The forefathers that thought prevention was much wiser to deal with must be turning over in their graves at the way we look at flood control today."
"we need a 5 year bill so that we can give certainty to our farmers"
"it is going to be a very challenging process"
"I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God."
"opening statement"
"Field hearings are one of the most important parts of the farm bill process."