"I want to be sure that the producers where we are can be seen through, and they told me, they said, look, we don't--we are not worried about a handout; we just want a fair price for the product that we produce, the quality product that we produce."
"I don't think we will have any if this keeps on much longer, and certainly by the end of the year."
"I think if you and I made a salary that we made in 1979, today we couldn't pay our bills."
"I go to the grocery store, Kroger's or Food City or wherever they shop, and milk hasn't dropped that much in price, and yet my price has dropped by over half."
"During this time that the milk price on the shelf that I go buy the milk, didn't drop nearly as much as the producers dropped, and that is a problem."
"I supported broadband funding for USDA to allocate to rural, unserved areas because I understand that only through grants will some of these areas ever receive broadband access."
"We are talking about billions of dollars in stimulus money here, and I want to be sure that the money is getting to the right places and that we are getting the most bang for our buck with these inves..."
"Broadband deployment can and will be a huge economic success for rural America."
"I held a roundtable discussion on the importance of funding rural broadband throughout the country."
"I was pleased to see the Notice of Funds Availability in the Federal Register this past week."
"The biggest telecommunications issue in my district right now is deployment of broadband to bring these vital Internet services into consumers' homes."