Well, the IRS has mentioned their outreach efforts. And Inspector General George gave them a B on it, not a bad mark.

If you could provide that to the Committee.

As our economy struggles to recover from the worst downturn since the Great Depression small businesses are bearing the brunt of the pain.

Small businesses are the backbone of our economy.

I just said that only the relevant number that everybody is going to be looking at over the next two to three weeks is Romney's number. If it doesn't move, that signals something kind of fundamental serious flaw with his candidacy. But we'll see. I think that's the big number to look at.

I don't think that he can, but again, he doesn't have, like, a campaign. He's not running like somebody would run a campaign, like Bill Clinton ran in '92 or some of the Bush campaigns, other people.

I never thought he had a chance to be the Republican nominee. I certainly don't think so after this. Less than zero, but whatever it is, he's gone into negative territory now.

The only the relevant number that everybody will be looking at over the next two to three weeks is Romney's number. If it doesn't move that signals some serious flaw with his candidacy.

So you are proposing to spend that money without congressional authority.

It is my hope that the Service will provide us with assurances, if not a guarantee, that wildlife dependent recreation will be permitted within the entire Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge if it is created.

Let me say that I remain disappointed that the Service has been unwilling to support the need for a Congressional authorization of new national wildlife refuges.

The USDA seems to have a much better grasp on conservation, whereas the Department of the Interior seems to embrace preservation.

the production levels have dropped and they continue down.

I want to take issue, and maybe this is a distinction without a difference, Ms. Jacobson, with your statement that this is not taxpayer money.

For many of us, our families have been here for generations, and we wish to have a Florida that our descendants may enjoy in similar fashion.

If we put that back into congressional approval we could make it statutory where access would be required.

So the question is why can't we divert these kind of funds towards a restoration and access rather than running out there and stuffing money in people's pockets, which seems to me to be significantly unnecessary?

It doesn't appear that there is very good access. That is the whole problem.