I represent the coast and what the federal government did was a coastal zone management plan.
I think that the growth industry in tourism is rural tourism and it is ag tourism.
I think the Administration ought to really require these economic rural development plans for rural America.
Well, we make the law.
We need to use USDA's power to help local people and local farms in those regions succeed.
We need to really make food nutrition in our schools a high priority in our healthcare bill.
USDA is really the first responder to poverty in America.
Perhaps we made a big mistake when we created the whole new Homeland Security Administration.
The only way you can solve it in those communities is to have what you call total wrap-around.
I am always interested in this hearing. It is a very interesting one to try to figure out how we can get a better bang for the buck.
the first goal is that nobody goes hungry in this country.