I thank the gentleman. My good friend, the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Westmoreland) is here, and I want to let him make the comments he wishes to make.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. We've been talking for a couple of years now about the rule of law and how the rules that we set up for ourselves are rules that glue our society together. But there are times when there are rules that people have…

Reclaiming my time for a moment, this morning, in an airport, as I was coming to Washington, I was on one of the earliest flights going out of Austin, Texas. We're a midsized city, and I've never seen so many lines in my life. I mean, they…

Reclaiming my time, what you just described is part of the American frustration factor that is part of what has got Americans frustrated in this economy right now. It is the unknown. It is the what is the government going to do to me next…

I'm glad you're here with me, and I hope you'll join me again because we're going to be talking about this a lot this year because it's something that matters to the American people. I encourage them to contact us if there are regulations…

Mr. President, first, I thank Senator Enzi for allowing me a couple of seconds here as we move toward a cloture vote on S. 510. I am an original cosponsor of S. 510, the food safety bill. I certainly had hoped that we would be able to come…

Mr. President, I hope that at the end of the day amendments will be allowed; that we can come up with a bill that is positive and that closes these gaps we have in the food safety inspection program in this country. Senator Klobuchar and I…

Mr. President, I am an original cosponsor of S. 510, the bill we just invoked cloture on, and as I said before the vote, I was going to actually have to vote against cloture and I would speak after the vote as to why because we were up…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to be allowed to speak as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

The thing that worries me about that is the effectiveness of a teleconference versus a personal contact one-on-one.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for calling this hearing.

I would encourage you, if they want to do it, to see if Fort Gordon and the Charlie Norwood VA in Augusta, GA, are not a part of that.

That just appears to me on the surface to say that we do not have a very good early evaluation system before they get to the determination system.

I think circuit riders are an excellent solution to what otherwise could be a problem of a more impersonal evaluation.

Technology can be a solution to the privacy issue.

Well, following up on Senator Johanns' comment, this is the automated imaging recognition picture--this is a little small--which was given to me, which clearly addresses the privacy issue in its entirety.

Air travel is essential.

My last question and/or comment is this: other than the pat-down, the biggest amount of feedback I get are young children.