The animals I saw in that video were approved by the inspector before that, is that what you're saying?

But the company would have been shut down during this period of time, the line would have been shut down, Mr. Secretary, is that right?

I just don't know if I understand that. You're short 500 inspectors, but you say you're not short any inspectors in the slaughter lines, whatsoever.

for public safety and public health, we do a recall on this.

We cannot keep saying these things if we don't really know.

But, certainly, Mr. Pacelle, you would also agree that if a cow is going down a chute and trips...

The people filling up their tank, would they rather have the American farmer and the American worker have that money or would they rather to give it to some Arab sheikh to shoot back at us in the war on terror? I think they would choose to…

This is a candidate who's been road tested who's been under the microscope for the last 15 years and has withstood that examination. That goes to the issue of electability.

This is a candidate who's been road-tested, who's been under the microscope now for the last 15 years and has withstood that -- that examination. That goes to the issue of electability.

I don't know, it's scrum, maybe, to use a different sports analogy. It's anyone's game.

I think the president is doing this now. It's catch up time, because he didn't veto very many spending bills during the years that the Republicans controlled Congress.

This Commission is significantly understaffed.

This is totally inadequate. It is not up to the task of building any kind of confidence among American consumers that we are really watching out for them.

We have to change this Commission and the work that it does.

We're going to increase it, and we're going to make a dedicated effort to make the Consumer Product Safety Commission a better Commission.

Quite frankly, this is a bad use of taxpayers' dollars. It's inefficient. It hurts smaller farmers. We could use money to go out to help young farmers get started in agriculture.

I hope that our subcommittee here will do you a favor and give you more money than what you requested.

Somewhere between 20 and 30.