Senator Durbin and I and others, on a bipartisan basis, have worked on this food safety bill.

I wonder, Ms. Harden, with your role with congressional relations, if you could talk a little bit about how we can stop this from happening again.

Senator Thune and I, and a few others here, I think, serve on both Agriculture and Commerce.

I just wondered if you could address that.

You know, we have people that go back and forth to take ballroom dancing, and it is a big concern on the border that that go as smoothly as possible.

I want to get a sense of how this would help you, vis-a-vis as you talk about your negotiations.

I know that Senator McCaskill covered the issue that I was focused on, on local coverage and how important that is.

Thank you very much.

I think some limited exemption for the industry to come together for a period of time could allow us to really find out what Mr. Simon's been talking about.

I am going to serve bacon at our Minnesota Morning where we invite all our constituents tomorrow morning just to make the point.

That is very practical, so thank you very much for that.

I think we had--I just checked--1,500 cases in a few months in 2007. I will report we saved 17 honeymoons and lost one.

And do you think there's anything that can be done with bankruptcy proceedings--anyone have any thoughts on that--to ease it?

I think that is very important for people to know, and I do think it gets at Senator Feinstein's retroactivity question to some degree, which I think is going to be very difficult.

I am a big supporter of treatment.

We are not talking about decriminalizing that.

So your answer to that, for my law enforcement people out there who are listening to this very carefully, would be that it is not like we are going to disregard the fact that guns are used with these crack crimes, that you are going to use…

I think part of this was--which I still see today--the scourge of crack cocaine and what it does and the very violent offenses that get committed with it.