I worked very closely with him. Now that he is Chairman, we continue to work very closely together and your commitment to this has just been unbelievable.

I want to echo what Senator Bennett just said. I was to meet with Mr. Sullivan a couple of weeks ago and it didn't work out and I had to call him up and apologize for canceling the meeting, but I wanted to come look him in the face today…

More states will be able to comply with the 45 day requirement and more military and overseas voters will be able to obtain their ballots in time with this requirement in place.

We recognize that election administration functions are carried out on the local level and we do not intend to transfer those responsibilities to the State in this legislation.

This is the way this body is supposed to work in my mind.

We do not wish to change them in this bill.

I will speak to the Senator from New York about that.

I did have one more, Mr. Carey. I am not picking on New York, but you used them as an example of being forward thinking with regard to that time framing, but apparently they do not have, New York does not have any electronic means for…

Frankly, I like your idea, Mr. Carey, of 60 days but I see a practical problem.

We have got an electronic voting method in Georgia that can be used.

Not only do we have a failure in the mechanisms of detecting foodborne illnesses, but we have a flawed system of educating the public about products, as well.

It ought to be pretty easy to have some sort of software system there to where a physician in any emergency room that is treating a patient for a potential salmonella poisoning or infection could go to a CDC or an FDA.

Well, I think whether it is recall or whether it is after we discover an outbreak, that there is a huge disconnect and a lack of information sharing.

Which is, again, one of those very serious loopholes that we need to try to plug.

An effective public-private sector partnership is critical to ensuring a safe food supply.

We want to make sure that every consumer that walks into the store and buys a peanut product can have the comfort of knowing that product is safe.

Our goal is to put in place the most effective tools to protect the American consumer and to put confidence in the marketplace where it is lacking today.

We have a system that is flawed and a system that in this particular instance has once again failed consumers across America.