I appreciate the gentleman form Pennsylvania and your passion on that also. This is the time, like you brought up and we have talked about, $17.5 trillion roughly in debt, if we go back to when we first got here, all being freshman, one of…

My concern is, due to the incentives, and some of the language, especially with the reference price of $5.35, that we are seeing an increase in peanut production already nationwide by 29 percent.

I want to just also reiterate a heartfelt thank you for the work you guys have done, not only with the Department of Agriculture, but with the Committee here.

I want to talk to you about the citrus industry, and you know well that Florida is number one in citrus, and you know our plight down there with the greening.

I appreciate that, and I know they do too.

And so I was real happy, and I know the citrus producers are real happy in our area, to see the money that was put into that.

I think what it means to me is I sleep better at night knowing that we can produce our needs and where we are not dependent as much on foreign oil.

If we prepare today it would be possible in the future, correct?

I think every policy we do as a Federal Government should be to make America stronger because if we don't do that, who's going to do that?

I think we need that balance between national security and cost, as the Admiral brought up.

Every policy we do should be to make America stronger.

security is the more important issue