some flexibility at the local level to make these meals appealing, not ignoring the nutrition and healthy part of that.

I thank the chairman for his leadership on this issue, and for giving us so many opportunities to explore these programs.

Thank you, Mr. Secretary, for your presence here today and your testimony.

Miami Dade College is one of those places where people go to find hope, opportunity, knowledge.

I commend you on that, and I will hold you to it, because, in my visits down to Key West and Miami, we all know how critical these vessels are.

We are clearly failing many of these children, and I appreciate everyone looking for solutions.

I certainly believe that at the very least it would make sense to expand Department of Education's role in all of this.

The maritime movement of cocaine--and virtually all the cocaine either moves by maritime or air, and the vast majority by maritime at some point of its voyage--is the tactical advantage that the United States has.

The reason the Coast Guard was created was--by Alexander Hamilton--was to take advantage of--that tactical advantage of intercepting things at sea.

It is obvious that these types of breaches occur every day.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for this opportunity to discuss what is a topic that is increasingly on the minds of parents and students and teachers.