Mike Conaway

Congress passed an imperfect bill. That is right. You heard it here last. The Dodd-Frank bill has some mistakes in it.

Examining the rulemaking process for errors, unfinished instructions, and unintended consequences, and then fixing the mistakes is an essential part of our job.

The three bills we are discussing today each improve Dodd-Frank in meaningful ways.

Thank you to Mr. Garrett of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in full support of H.R. 2682, the Business Risk Mitigation and Stabilization Act. As chairman of the General Farm Commodities and Risk Management Subcommittee, I am pleased…

I thank the gentleman from New Jersey for yielding time. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express my strong support for H.R. 2779. The interaffiliate swaps, those swaps occurring between entities within a single corporate structure, are an…

Without the safety net provided by crop insurance and other programs, all authorized by farm legislation, it would have been virtually impossible to survive that devastating loss.

An effective farm bill that supports production agriculture is also an effective jobs bill for the general economy.

As a dryland producer in Texas, I have first-hand experience of the risks farmers face.

While agriculture is willing to make a proportionate contribution to deficit reduction, it's vitally important that budget constraints and farm program critics not be allowed to undermine the effectiveness of our farm safety net.

Most Americans think food just shows up at the grocery store by magic.

One-size-fits-all has a certain elegant simplicity to it, but nobody wants that.

I thank the gentleman from Colorado for allowing me to join in; and although I'm not a part of the freshman class, I hope they won't toss me out of the Chamber as a result of that indiscretion. I wanted to walk us through kind of the…

We've had an awful lot of conversation this afternoon. It twists on the idea that somehow the 100 Members of the Senate are so much smarter and so much brighter and so much more intelligent than the 435 Members of the House of…

I thank the gentleman. This is really hard to listen to in the sense that we are being asked to simply accede to the wisdom of the Senate. The wisdom of the Senate would say that long-range planning is 2 months. The wisdom of the Senate…

It's already been said tonight that 15 years ago we came within a chigger's whisker of passing a balanced budget amendment and sending it to the States. Imagine how different today's conversations would be had the folks in charge then done…

With billions of taxpayer dollars at stake, it is critical that DOD take the necessary actions to ensure that the ERPs are successfully implemented.

Yet, GAO has reported over the years 'that the Department has not effectively employed acquisition management controls to help ensure the ERPs deliver the promised capabilities on time and within budget.'

We firmly believe that rigorous cost-benefit analysis creates better rules.

Improving financial management controls is critical to safeguarding taxpayer dollars and preventing waste, fraud, and abuse.

I thank the gentleman from Nevada for yielding. Mr. Speaker, 10 years ago Sunday our Nation endured one of the worst attacks that it has ever seen. Like so many Americans, I watched in total disbelief at the horrific tragedy that was…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 414, nays 3, not voting 15, as follows: [Roll No. 680]…

As has been spoken earlier, the Endangered Species Act is broken. What began as a tool to help scientists protect vulnerable populations of endangered animals and plants has metastasized into an economic straitjacket from which there is no…

I join my colleague in asking to exempt the Department of Defense from section 526; 526 was added to the energy bill in a wrongheaded move to placate some notion that it would have some impact on global warming. It's wrong to require the…

This amendment is very similar to the one we just debated except as to the amounts, and it does strike the entire infrastructure account. I would like to make a couple of points that I didn't make earlier with respect to the previous…

Federal crop insurance must be built upon, or it will wither and die because it will fall behind producer needs.