Nick Rahall: “What happened at UBB is absolutely criminal and the Congress should do everything in its power to stop the protection.”

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.

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…

This committee is where the future of this country is at, in my opinion.

We need a partnership, a co-partnership here, if you will, with GSA and OMB to work through this issue.