"I am also aware that the death tax is creating difficulties for farming operations."
"I am a big advocate for alternative fuels and have been for a long, long time."
"I expect we will hear a different perspective than we got in the Northeast and the Midwest."
"I want to give producers the tools to help you do what you do best and that is produce the safest, most abundant, most affordable food supply in the world."
"It is vitally important that the commodity title give producers options so they can choose the program that best works for them."
"This hearing of the Committee on Agriculture entitled, The Future of U.S. Farm Policy: Formulation of the 2012 Farm Bill, will come to order."
"I like doing things in the neighborhood, coming from just across the line to the south."
"Today, we're here to listen."
"I am greatly worried about the future of hunger in America with respect to your recent proposal to cut funding for SNAP."
"This hearing of the Committee on Agriculture to review the Commodity Futures Trading Commission 2012 agenda will come to order."
"Our constituents need more than empty reassurances."
"Making policy without regard to the economic consequences is a luxury we cannot afford even in the strongest of economies."