"Mr. Speaker, in my home state of North Carolina, farmers are a crucial part of the economy and the community. Earlier this week I had the chance to sit down with a group of farmers from Wayne County. One of their greatest concerns was not a traditional one for farmers - it had nothing to do with feed prices, soil fertility, or farm equipment maintenance -- it had to do with a federal agency attempting to regulate any ditch, puddle, or dry creek bed within the property lines of their farm. This proposed rule from the EPA would take control away from these farmers and place it in the hands of the federal government."