John Mica: “We could eliminate food service. Do you think anyone would starve between here and New York?”

Again, if you don't have communication, I mean, when they couldn't communicate--and we held funds up a couple of times. I think I participated in that to get your attention.

The bipartisan cooperation has been very effective in moving this forward.

But where are we? Do you know? Maybe Mr. Wiedefeld can tell me.

We tried to get them to comply, but they never did fully comply.