A diverse group of panelists... all agreed to something, and that is very, very important.

Of course there is certainly a tremendous amount of work to be done before we're all marching through the halls of Congress singing Kum Bay Ya.

It is only by us coming together that we can really find a solution to these very critical issues.

We have more information now, and we should legislate on what we know now.

a Representative in Congress from Georgia

So I wanted to hold this hearing to serve as a forum for Members to air their concerns and to examine the width and breadth of policy issues surrounding the dairy industry.

Seems to be something that they are using quite frequently to try to defeat things like health care and education, energy.

I want to first begin by thanking the Chairman for hosting this town hall meeting, actually hosting it after calling it.

To the contrary, despite their claims on the radio that they have never been invited, that there have been no opportunities for them to discuss this issue, it is not true.

I urge you to address this early and to really figure out innovative and creative ways that we can make sure it gets to those people that you talk about that do not have the resources to come in with a huge grant writing capability.

I hope that you will give strong consideration to educational programs about communicating to all Americans what is contained in those dietary guidelines.

Let me just assure you that there will be bipartisan support on the Hill to see about the implementation of that plan.

Well, I think that is an important quality fact. We do not want any mistakes to take place, but we do want to have a culture that when a mistake does take place, we take immediate action from a standpoint of the specific case.

It is very important that we have a mechanism of accountability to assure our veterans.

You have a complaint process, is that correct?

Would your office be the appropriate office to put in new procedures or direct new procedures?

Following up on that question, so there is no relevant data on private sector occurrence of these infections in terms of if it happens at all or how frequent it happens?

Are you now making a specific inspection of the disinfecting process of this equipment as a part of that?