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for this country. the first point i would make is that the bill includes a reduction of $491 million for the overall renewable program from fiscal year 2011, even a more significant reduction compared to fiscal year 2010. and so the committee, i believe, fully recognizes its responsibilities to be careful fiscally. but i must also indicate that someone i have a great deal of respect for, my senior senator from my state, senator lugar, has characterized our energy problem as a national security problem. we all recognize it is an economic problem. we can debate the environmental aspect...

staff writer for the hill. thank you for your and we appreciate your time and input today. it will be back tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. for another edition of the "washington journal." we go to the national press club where congressman barney frank will be speaking. a look at the dog-franc reform bill. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> please keep questions brief and to the point we can get in as many questions as possible. after the press has been affecting their questions, other audience members are ...

murphy is for that context and i wonder if you have any vision for how we can restore hope for the farmer. >> the question is from a manacle has lived here all his life, how can we restore hope for the farmer in iowa, given some of, and this is my word and maybe not yours, but plight recalled the sort of deprivations of some of the big agriculture. i think that number one, people have to talk honestly about what happens when for instance a town is financially vulnerable and they have a meat packing plant and the people that buy the meatpacking plant come to town and hold the town hal...