"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."
"But I am just trying to figure out why you guys feel like you have to come out with clarification when it is pretty clear itself."
"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 ..."
"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."
"So I don't want to hear the normal. What I want to know is how are we going to protect generational farms."
"It is absolutely ridiculous that you guys are having to be here to explain what the hindrances are to abide by a contract that you are required by law to uphold."
"The biggest challenge that I have had in my personal business was having to fight the Federal Government to provide common-sense jobs."
"Common sense in Washington doesn't exist. I have looked for it, and I haven't found it yet."
"I cannot imagine that anyone will invest the time and effort to craft a multi-State Range Wide conservation program now that they clearly see that FWS does not properly credit them by not listing the ..."
"I believe--if I'm not mistaken--that the 10th Amendment, that is what gave the States the rights, the right to understand and even have first shot at regulating their State."
"We make a lot of rules here that have unintended consequences. And when we have a one-size-fit-all approach, it has unintended consequences."
"But we are doing a one-size-fits-all approach."