David Roe

That is absolutely, totally intolerable right there when you see something like that.

That just shouldn't happen. How in the world does something that egregious happen?

We need to ensure that the VA is allocating these resources wisely.

Our Nation's veterans have fought faithfully for our freedom and deserve to be treated with the utmost respect. They have the right to expect their claims to be processed in a timely and appropriate manner.

While she cautioned members to tread carefully through this path, we are again here reviewing these bonuses and their appropriateness.

They should expect that in all their dealings with the Department of Veterans Affairs, they will be treated with the utmost respect and dignity.

They have a right to expect their claims to be processed in a timely and appropriate manner.

I'm not asking you today, but I would like to know after this whether those folks got bonuses or not.

Well, we know that natural gas companies are going to pay, consumers are. I mean, that is who pays the bill.

I come from an area of a lot of small dairy farmers, and one of the biggest complaints that I hear... it is a catastrophe.

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…

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 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.

I think if you and I made a salary that we made in 1979, today we couldn't pay our bills.

I don't think we will have any if this keeps on much longer, and certainly by the end of the year.

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 investments.

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.

I was pleased to see the Notice of Funds Availability in the Federal Register this past week.

Broadband deployment can and will be a huge economic success for rural America.

The biggest telecommunications issue in my district right now is deployment of broadband to bring these vital Internet services into consumers' homes.

I held a roundtable discussion on the importance of funding rural broadband throughout the country.

If you do that, you are going to put them out of business.

What lowered the CO2 emissions in Europe and in the United States, which dropped almost exactly the same percentage, was our GDP went down, our output went down.

I can't think of any business in the world, having to run one for over 30 years, where you can increase the cost and your commodity prices don't go up, how that doesn't put you out of business.

I think that plays into their hands.