Mike Conaway

It is this kind of investment that can spur tremendous economic growth throughout rural America.

The current economic climate has placed acute burdens on rural America from the small businesses in each of our communities to the farmers and ranchers working every daylight hour.

How do we protect the Council from untoward influence by Members of Congress?

If we have disagreements as to how we get to where we want to get to, it is not because we are callous and heartless and insensitive to the heartbreaks that these three families have suffered as a result of these tragedies, but it will be…

Some of us would respectfully disagree with the fact that government could run markets that way over the long term.

The government really doesn't have any money that it doesn't take from taxpayers or borrow from somebody else.

Have you ever seen a government-mandated supply system in any market, not milk, actually work to the benefit of the producers and the consumers?

So I get it right, why in the face of, what all of you would agree is an oversupply of production, are there incentives?

Bridging the broadband divide can send American jobs to rural America, not overseas.

The current economic climate places new and acute burdens on rural America.

H.R. 2454 is cap-and-tax. It is a tax bill that will be forced not only on agriculture in rural America but our entire country.

I think the point of this is, it is not a contest, it is not a competition. I think this is serious business, and it requires us to work cooperatively.

I believe that the bill, as it stands, fails to recognize the important contributions the agriculture community can and must play in energy legislation if we have any hope of curbing climate change and achieving true energy independence.

The Waxman-Markey bill is expected to hit agricultural producers particularly hard.

But the issue, though, is, who presumes that that glide path is right, that that is where we ought to go?

the broad, 10,000 foot statement is, it looks like everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die to get there.

I will do my best to present as strong a case--if I feel strongly about something, I can guarantee you, you would know it, the EPA Administrator would know it, and rural America would know it.

I represent those people first, not the rest of the world.

Midwestern states like my own of Kansas will bear the brunt of the economic blow because of the inequality in the way that carbon allowances are allocated.

We need to take this legislation and completely redo it in a completely different fashion and offer a competing version that people on both sides of the aisle can join together, in a bipartisan fashion and path, to promote a sound energy…

farmers and ranchers were the first environmentalist in this country, and remain some of the strongest.

Although I remain highly skeptical of the science underlying this debate and dispute the fundamental need for this legislation, today's hearing is not about computer modeling and variables or formulas and graphs; it is about the very real…

EPA cannot be trusted with agricultural carbon offsets.

I am particularly concerned that farm cooperative-owned businesses could be subject to emissions caps and would feel their effects more severely than other segments of capped industries.

Common sense demands that we defeat this bill on the House floor.