"I just want to applaud the Department's decision in that regard."
"If we don't give you the tools to do it, we are inhibiting your ability to carry out our directives."
"I think you expressed the sentiments of all of us with regard to the casualties and the situation in Boston."
"The entire industry relies very heavily on these reports as well as a monthly cold storage report, which we understand will continue."
"I have been very encouraged to find out that the Food and Nutrition Service has worked very hard to make sure that veterans and their families are informed about potential benefits."
"the real victims are really our constituents, who, throughout the State, will be negatively impacted by this impasse."
"So it is really not the President's sequester, it is the responsibility that the--or the mandate that the congress has placed upon the executive branch to implement these cuts, these painful cuts, the..."
"Do you have adequate technical assistance training or other target assistance to make sure that the States can rectify any issues or problems that come forward?"
"As I understand it the current administration has just recently taken over, and they inherited this problem from the previous administration, and they are working aggressively to try to correct it, bu..."
"I think you are pretty familiar, Ms. Fong, with some of the challenges that we are facing in the State of Georgia with our WIC program."
"It is clear that FNS was fully aware for a number of years that the State of Georgia didn't have the resources or the expertise to appropriately manage and operate the WIC program."