We think the bill is a good first step for agriculture, in that it does not attempt to regulate agriculture or to cap the emissions from our industry.

If EPA is put in charge of offsets and USDA does not have a significant role in the implementation of offsets, we will oppose that, as well.

We have argued that you could bring up the support prices that really serve as the safety net when times are tough.

The shallow-loss issue has been one that has vexed, I think, everyone for a long, long time.

[t]he Corps, through our pilot study, found no basis to claim that reverse auctioning provided any significant or marginal savings over a traditional contracting process for construction or construction services.