the foundation of rural America's economy is agriculture.

I'm not sure I agree with y'all's definition of 'earmark,' but that's something that we should talk about further.

We want to see economic recovery. We want to see a more stable, more robust economy in this country.

Well, if you haven't had a chance to see this one, I hope that you and your staff will look at it, because this is more of a Government wide report.

I do want to focus--since I can't talk about catfish, let me focus on the President's budget request.

And another related issue is that the Mexican drug cartel has a big presence in the United States.

The Congress has been pushing more hiring along the border.

We need to have a metric to make sure we know how many hours are driven, and that they're complying with the hours that are in the agreement that we signed with Mexico.

I know that we need to trim our budgets, and everybody agrees that we're spending too much, but highway safety and transportation safety is very critical.

I think the Federal prison system is fairly overcrowded at this point. So we need more bed space.

Are we allocating enough resources? Do we have enough focus on those Mexican drug cartels?