Pork is safe. It's safe to eat, it's safe to handle...

Yes. Well, again, we need further discussions with you and with the CDC and, of course, with Health and Human Services to find out just how much resources we need to come up with.

I think what is happening right now makes it crystal-clear that the public health departments, both of our State and our Federal Government, have been inadequately funded in the past.

We need the workforce on the ground so when we have that vaccine, we can put it in people's arms.

I really think it behooves us to move as rapidly as possible to get these facilities built, so that we can develop that vaccine as rapidly as possible to protect our people.

That's why I wanted you here today, to allay the fears of people, that pork is safe, it's safe to eat.

Thank you very much. But again, I would return the compliments to you and to the Centers for Disease Control...

President Obama has requested $1.5 billion in the supplemental...

This is a priority from the top, and FSIS is up to the challenge.

If it had been a family member who had been killed by an illegal who would have otherwise not been in this country if the law had been enforced, if that had been your close family member, your sister for example, would you perhaps change…

The Supreme Court made clear in the 1981 case of Haig v. Agee that 'such holdings are appropriate given that it is obvious and unarguable that no government interest is more compelling than the security of the Nation.'

Did you father ever advise you, as a matter of being a good citizen, that one needed to, as a matter of citizenship, help cooperate in enforcing immigration law in the United States?

I just began to ask the question that I didn't know the answer to and I asked staff to go back and find it for me.

What I really have is a statement that I intended to introduce.

I think that would reflect that 81 percent of those violators are Hispanic.

It is important that as we seek to enforce the law, that we also live under the law.

The use of race or national origin in law enforcement is only strictly prohibited when race or national origin is the sole criteria for the law enforcement action.

We did quite a bit in the last farm bill on organics.