Again, this wraps up our last hearing for the budget for fiscal year 2014. I want to thank all the staff on both sides of the aisle for their work during this hearing process.

Thank you, Mr. Under Secretary, and for those announcements, we appreciate your testimony here this morning and for your work at your agency and what you do.

I along with many of my other colleagues believe there is far greater potential for growth of U.S. exports simply because 95 percent of the world's consumers live outside the United States of America.

I hope we can remedy that.

I know our Temporary Worker Program is very important to agriculture. We do need policies in place to encourage the flow of labor in and out of the country that is legal.

This program helps the most vulnerable in rural America achieve the dream of homeownership.

What role does the MRP mission area have in the technical support of the two ongoing free-trade agreements?

I suggest that this program is really of not very much use in terms of what we need to do.

Let me associate myself with Ms. Pingree's remarks on fairness for American producers.

USDA has proposed a decrease in funding for trade and technical assistance but proposed an increase of $725,000 for Lacey Act activities.

Not only is this industry a vital part of our national economy...

And certainly, as you rightly pointed out, our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and their families in Boston.

Thank you all for being here and for your presence before the subcommittee today.

Thank you both for being here and for your testimony this morning. We look forward to working with you as we continue on with the fiscal year 2014 budget.

Dr. Clark, let me turn to you for just a minute on the Census for Agriculture.

We do believe the way this is set up that 55 percent of the food that will be sold or utilized in this program will still come from American producers.

Today we begin our review of USDA's fiscal 2014 budget request.

I did not vote for the FY 2014 budget request for two reasons.

I want to dig a little deeper in the issue that Mr. Nunnelee had mentioned about the National School Lunch Program and Breakfast Program.

I support your efforts in trying to make a priority of the certain research mission that you are tasked to do at USDA.

That is a good example. I have actually been able to see that firsthand, and it is very impressive.

Yeah, well, you know, the concern about it was, as far as the budget zeros out this program...

So you would agree with the Administrator that this is an important thing to move forward on?

Right, and how those compare so that when you do a comparison, you are comparing apples to apples as compares to, you know, to truly get a cost of what the real cost in comparing the private screeners as opposed to TSA.

I think a lot of Americans are very concerned right now about the exploding participation and cost of the SNAP program over the past 4 years.