Do you anticipate having to increase USF fees in order to do this?

You do not want the carriers who are providing the services all the way through the system like they are supposed to and not being compensated for it.

We want to make sure that we are focusing on next generation broadband communications but that we are not leaving behind basic local services.

I would like to ask, if I can, maybe General Boozer and also Mr. Hansen a little bit about the Pine Bluff arsenal.

As that thing closes down and that goes away and we lose all of that, it is going to have about a $100 million impact to the community annually.

I would just encourage you to continue on that track and even put more resources there if that is what you need to do.

the Guard and the reserve component is really the key to our readiness today.

I think it may be time to look at that.

I would suggest the Pine Bluff arsenal may be a good place that a lot of that could be done.

It is important to pretty much every Senator in the Senate because we all have some rural areas and some challenges out in those rural areas.

My sense is, in talking to people in Pine Bluff and that area--they have kind of a regional chamber of commerce--is that they are not real happy with the efforts that OEA has made.

I think it is next week or the week after. I am not sure.