Markwayne Mullin actually said...

"You guys came in on my property and said we couldn't spread chicken litter anymore, effectively killing the chicken industry around for the small business owners."

"I find it almost laughable when you guys are going to have these comments out, which really isn't going to have that much impact."

"Because I can tell you I have read it and the way I read it is that every time we lose a generation and a farm changes hands--which you know farms are generational--we are going to lose farms as they ..."

"So I don't want to hear the normal. What I want to know is how are we going to protect generational farms."