over the next 3 years, about 120 multifamily housing loans will mature each year, representing over 10,000 units of affordable housing

I want to go to rental assistance in more detail.

Thank you for all that work.

I wanted to start by asking you about the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Loan Program.

I am so glad you are here. Because of this hearing, we learned for the first time today that the language that we worked out with bipartisan staff involved, with Rural Development involved, signing off on the language, that they have some…

So, Mr. Taylor, you mentioned the foreign inspections, and FSMA mandated 600 inspections in 2011, with a doubling of the previous year's inspection level for the subsequent 5 years, which would mean that in fiscal year 2015, we would have…

I was hearing the stories about Kansas and Montana and getting a little jealous, but I knew you would come to Oregon.

Switching gears, I want to much follow-up here, given the shortage of time.

Much credit is owed to this subcommittee, particularly Ranking Member Merkley, for his leadership to enact the Rural Energy Savings Program Act.

I think that is the least burdensome approach, and certainly appropriate.

Have you taken a look at this program and considered ways to improve on it.

That is unacceptable, isn't it?

There are approximately 50 programs.

I'm delighted to be here, and I'm happy for us to expeditiously proceed.

And I think one of those areas that the funding is impacting the United States is in filling those foreign offices.

What this means is while this vacuum exists, and I must say when products are labeled after things like flavored gummy bears and double dutch chocolate, so on and so forth, the targeting for children is quite obvious.

I was reading an article recently about the ponds where shrimp are farmed on land in Asia and where massive amounts of antibiotics are used to control the various diseases that are rampant in those ponds.

I am just going to cut to the chase and say I am glad it is going to have this guidance.

I have heard from constituents and that there are concerns that foreign businesses may not be as closely monitored as U.S. businesses.

So the marketplace for sulfur dioxide worked extraordinarily well, actually, lower costs and faster results than anyone anticipated.

Isn't the Clean Power Plan really based around that same core principle of States developing their own plan?

Should the entities that are being damaged by carbon pollution be able to sue those who are generating the carbon proportional to their contribution?

Underlying this entire discussion is the challenge we have with carbon pollution, methane pollution and the impact it is having across the world.

But the principle, you understand, of polluter pays, when you do some damage to your neighbor, shouldn't you bear some responsibility just as a basic fundamental principle?

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.