This concerns me very greatly, because without those board feet coming out of the national forest, you are not really feeding the mills and the arts that are in close proximity. It really hurts our economy, wouldn't you agree?

We have talked about having a hearing on the issues that are facing the forestry for sometime.

Thank you, Congressman Kagen, for acknowledging the importance of the forest products industry to society.

we applaud the leadership shown by the Agriculture Committee, in particular by you, Congressman Kagen

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for convening another hearing on the dairy crisis across America.

a Representative in Congress from Wisconsin

Wisconsin is the dairyland of America, and we hope to-- intend to succeed.

the dairy farmers of Wisconsin appreciate your effort, and they would also appreciate it if this Congress would work together, across party lines, to succeed in fashioning a health care reform legislation that would lower the cost of…

We must continue to support our dairy industry. If farms go under, they will not return.

Dairy is a prime economic engine for my state.

I think these are the questions that the people in Northeast Wisconsin are very interested in.