I want to express appreciation for the increase in funding for Collaborative Landscape Restoration.

We should absolutely stop fire-borrowing. It shuts down all the other components of the Forest Service when we have these high fire years.

I certainly support that, and the State has put money into it.

Outdoor recreation in Oregon accounts for $12.8 billion in consumer spending, $4 billion in wages and salaries, 141,000 direct Oregon jobs.

Every now and then, there is a shining example of people really sitting down in the room who might have had historic disagreements and working out a plan.

The longer fire season is based on the hotter and drier weather, which is a big contributor to those increasing costs.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has said that mining activities are incompatible with the high resource values of this bioregion.

40 percent of returning veterans are from rural areas, and opportunities for veterans in agriculture, therefore, are very important.

I have felt that it is so hard for veterans to come back, they have been engaged with high responsibility and high risk, high adrenalin, they come back home and if they do not have kind of a job structure to fit into, that transition can…

Mr. Baccam, I will not take the time now but can you follow up with us in terms of brainstorming about that particular obstacle.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to apologize now that I will have to leave at 3:30, so this will be the only round of questions I will be able to be a part of.

I think you are training veterans to be farmers.

the consumer is getting a far better deal.

1,300 veterans return to civilian life every day here in America.

I applaud all of you for your work.

if you are going to make the argument, at least know the facts, that they do not disappear when you put a cap on the interest rate.

It has increased between 2012 and 2015 by $500 billion.

Thank you very much, Mr. President. I am rising to speak to this issue from a simple American citizen point of view. The American citizen wants the right to know what is in their food. They want to know how many calories; they want to know…

Thank you. I appreciate the Senator's presentation. This Monsanto DARK Act 2.0--this new version--says to the States that they no longer have the right to respond to consumers' interest in providing a consumer-friendly label that alerts…

People are also very, very concerned about the environmental footprint, at a time when we now understand that 80 percent of the proven fossil fuels in the world, the reserves, have to stay in the ground if we are going to save this planet.

There is a second option put into the Monsanto DARK Act, which is the quick response code. You have to have a smartphone that can take a picture of that quick response code, take you to a Web site to get information--information, by the…

Is it right that the Federal Government takes away this power from States, which are, if you will, our places of experimentation and creativity, and then does nothing at the national level? Is this an overreach of the Federal Government?

Thank you very much, Mr. President. I will use these papers as examples of food products. I have three different bags of rice, and I want to look. I can scan the ingredients list of these three products to see what they contain. Well, in…

Is the Senator saying the whole idea presented in the Monsanto DARK Act 2.0 about putting a phone number on the package so someone can call a company is a sham?

Well, in this Monsanto DARK Act 2.0 that has been put on the floor, there is a third option beyond the voluntary labeling and beyond the 1-800 numbers and QR code, and the third option--door No. 3, if you will--is that the company can put…