Many communities in Vermont remain on the wrong side of the digital divide--sidelined in a nation that increasingly demands high-speed Internet access to engage socially, politically and economically. I believe that unused spectrum will be…

Will Congress today choose on behalf of the American people who elected us to build a health care system where every American has access to health care and where every American shares in the responsibility of paying for it. Will we today…

With all the controversy about the health care bill, the content of it, the argument about what is in it, what is not in it, this really does boil down to a fundamental question that this Congress and this country has eluded and avoided…

Thank you very much. I appreciate the opportunity to speak about trying to get jobs to start going up along with the stock market. You know, it was only 1 year ago in one week that Wall Street, the stock market was crashed to its lowest…

Well, I appreciate that. You know, really what it is about is whether banking is going to be an activity that is about lending money to businesses, small businesses, families, to buy their first home, or it is going to be a mechanism for…

One of the qualities, of, I think, a great person is that they don't see themselves as great. They really see themselves as ordinary. If they value something about themselves, it's that being ordinary allows them to do generous and good…

Two points. Number one, my question is, what is the other side afraid of? There are certain caricatures that they just want tax cuts, we just want spending. The bottom line is that whatever your intention, no matter how good and noble you…

I want to speak about two things. One is how do we get lending going for small businesses. And two, what is a practical thing we can do to create 600,000 to 850,000 jobs. What happened? Wall Street went on strike. After they made record…

One of the things that we have learned in this entire catastrophe of the financial meltdown is that most of the things that were done that are truly outrageous and harmful to taxpayers and our economy were all legal.

if we are going to restore some sense of fairness that the American taxpayer needs, do you think that we have to address such transfers where the goal of the taxpayer bailout was to revive the financial system, but not to reward any…

There has been a premise in corporate America that the more you are paid, the more you are worth.

Trying to figure out what is the 'right level of compensation' ultimately is an arbitrary decision.

At a certain point reasonable people have to ask the question as to whether the efforts that you are taking are cosmetic.

Your routine is to come in here and tell us you are 'doing everything [you] possibly can' and profess concern.

The milk protein concentrates have always been cheaper from New Zealand and Australia.

Again, they are selling milk today at $12 a hundredweight compared to $18 when the farm bill was passed.

The depth of the crisis in Vermont cannot be understated.

If we had all of the people in dairy and those people who represent dairy come in to give testimony about the problems they are having, we wouldn't have time for much else that is going on here in Congress because most everybody I know…

If we increase the support price, somebody has to buy that product and that ends up being the government, and I don't think that is going to work in the long run.

I urge the Committee to consider all options with regards to providing support for dairy farmers.

The economic situation in this iconic American industry is dire, and it must be addressed quickly.

I would like to thank you for the opportunity to provide testimony to the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry on the current dairy crisis in the State of Vermont and some possible short-term solutions to this…

My suggestion is that when there is an offer at the support price, the CCC should automatically buy it.

What we have to do is make certain that we continue to have the resources in our dairy states and dairy farmers so we continue to become food independent.

We must move beyond these differences in order to develop new and innovative policies that benefit the whole dairy industry.