We've been joined by Senator Thune, who's the Ranking Member of the full Committee.

Thank you very, very much for your participation today, and your preparation.

And let me just follow up on that, if I could. And that is, are there ways that we could offload the need for spectrum with some of our wireless devices?

Let me say I have some concerns about that.

As I mentioned earlier, this is the final budget hearing, and I appreciate the work that everyone at USDA and FDA...

I know what you've gone through with sequestration so far and my guess is you've hit a lot of low-hanging fruit.

What caused the change, three things. One, simply the tough budget environment that we all find ourselves in.

I hear a lot of concern from the Arkansas electric coops.

The subcommittee's next markup--meeting will be a markup of the fiscal year 2014 bill and that date has not yet been determined.

The testimony presented during these hearings was very helpful and that constant flow of information back and forth has been very good...

There's actually broad support for these in Congress.