Well, I would be very interested, and I know several Members on the Committee would be very interested in helping to speed the process along in getting that prohibition removed on the CCC.

I think this may be one of the largest audiences that we've had, and I really appreciate those students being here.

I am out of time. If I could make one final point? Secretary Vilsack, the people in the USDA know when we plant cotton.

We're leading the Nation in health IT and a lot of innovations and discoveries but yet our biggest challenge has been filling those jobs with innovators just seemed to be a lack of inspiration.

As you know that we, Georgia, is the number two cotton producing state in the nation next to Texas, so we are very concerned about that, and I certainly appreciate the opportunity working as quickly as we can in assisting you in any kind…

When we die, the government takes 50 percent of our land.

Today, the state of the agricultural economy remains sound, despite lower commodity prices.

I am having a very difficult time explaining that to my farmers back home who are going out of business.

These American jobs are disappearing and the Chinese will--they do not pay much attention to anything else.

What steps are you taking to address the intellectual property theft perpetuated by foreign nations and specifically China?

I made sure we included in our 2016 bill guidance to NASA to look to those decadal surveys.

When have you dropped the hammer on them and actually hit them with a tariff?

We have to do something to get their attention or they are not going to stop.

NASA is the premier leader in the world because of the team you have and we have to be able to replenish that team.

It is a much bigger deal.

I just hope that we not only do that as an example, but let the American public know it is an example.

So I hope you gather of course from the questions that you have heard from all of us here today that we are counting on you and this Administration to respond, whether it be dumping steel, theft of intellectual property, protecting the…

I mean, this is the equivalent of cyber warfare that the Chinese have declared on us some time ago and it really is about time the United States hammered them back. This is just not acceptable.