Nick Rahall: “I am very happy to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), our distinguished minority whip and a…”

I am happy to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Enyart), who is on the Agriculture Committee and an original sponsor of the legislation. He has been of tremendous help in moving this forward.

Your commitment to bipartisanship has proven that together we can do great things.

I will miss working with you and all of my esteem colleagues from both sides of the aisle, but I know that with your leadership, and your bipartisanship, and your transparent manner of operating this committee, this Nation's future is in…

I am very happy at this time to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Peterson), a strong supporter, the cosponsor of this legislation, original cosponsor of it, and the ranking member of the Committee on Agriculture.