I think sometimes we focus too much on the democracy side overseas, not as much on the constitutional side of constituti...
If we want to remain the world leader, we need to keep up our game.
Can you look in to this matter and make sure that our fish farmers will be able to protect their products?
Okay. And I've noticed also that the budget includes an increase of $50 million for the WIC contingency reserve. Do you ...
And I guess my next two questions are, why is it not already final, because you've been working on this for a long time,...
I was pleased to see the funding increase request for NIFA.
Thank you and we're not going to ask Mr. Young to say anything, but you're welcome to if you like to.
We are going to fully support it in 2014, just like we do today.
And what impact has sequestration had on WIC, if any?
Okay, so, given the, I guess I'd say volatile nature of this program, I guess you can say that, are you concerned that f...
I just want to thank you for your service again, Director, for all that you've done. I know that you've worked really ha...
Scientific endeavors are not the kind of activity that we can put a bookmark in and come back when funding is flush.
At a time when China and Brazil are ramping up their investment in agricultural research, we cannot afford to let ours b...
I think what we'd like to do is, I'd like to get a better understanding of how that works.
Do you have a sense of if, once the rule becomes final--you might not be able to answer this yet. But do you have a sens...
I don't intend to close Booneville ARS lab in this bill.
We may have some follow-up on that in a few minutes, but, first, I wanted to ask Dr. Hagen about the FSIS.
Yes, I think the way it's worked up to this point is pretty much that person has to come out on the farm...