I would like to say that I would like that list, $54 million is going to FAS.

So let me just say, we are not going to see what happened with Beef Packers again and we are not going to see what has happened with salami being on the market for over a year?

I understand that. But I think you said that they sent the material out to places where they were not part--they didn't receive any of the product, or in fact, they may have been out of business, as I read your report--and there was no way…

The public has every reason to believe that there is gross ineptness here, on this issue, unlike CSP, the public health is at risk.

I would like to be able to show people that there is a real future in rural America.

I don't have a clue why we are subsidizing non-nutritious food in our schools.

What are you doing about this?

it's a moral responsibility, in my view, what we're talking about here.

I would also like to indicate I asked you and we need to talk about this not here but in another venue, to talk about what authorities you need.

We need objective folks reviewing these lists, and then making, so that we can make appropriate recommendations.

We will pass the health care bill on Sunday, and one of the pieces that I think is particularly important that hasn't had that much focus or retention is that--that is in menu labeling.

I think the grant component of that program, which was part of what the recovery program was about, was a very good addition in terms of trying to move into underserved areas.

I am anxious to take a hard look at what happened in Pennsylvania because Pennsylvania has been working in this effort to see what it costs.

we are confronted with what at first appears to be a two-headed problem. On one hand we face a problem of access.

What happens? Do States ask you for the materials, and then they are distributed in the State?

Again, we continue to allow contractors who are in gross violation, not once, not twice, many times over, to continue to participate and sell a product to the school lunch program.

It cannot work, it cannot work. We will not have it.

I know with the Food Safety Working Group, one of the key recommendations was to focus on the need to give FDA and FSIS improved statutory authorities.

It appears as if from the letters that I have looked at that China has so far refused, flatly refused, to provide information on their new food safety law to FSIS as they are required to do.

Even more disturbing is the fact that USDA has documented many of the violations but taken virtually no action to permanently bar suppliers from participating in the program.

$80 billion I believe it was roughly, $70 billion or $80 billion for the AMT, which, by all accounts and by every economist who wrote about this, had not one shred of a stimulative effect.

So there is a whole chain of people who benefit from that money that is going to food stamp recipients or from people who are going to spend it in the economy.

If we want to live in a world of numbers and statistics and refuse to look at the plight of the people behind those numbers and statistics, then we are going down the wrong road.

what we will see is massive layoffs in education.

Isn't Mark Zandi the economist who says that, for every dollar spent on food stamps, there is $1.74 in GDP growth?