While I recognize that the eradication of cotton insects and pests is primarily the role of APHIS, I notice that NIFA proposes to spend $11.9 million in fiscal year 2014 for research projects focused on improved pest control.

it is really going to have a devastating impact on the industry this year

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.

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.

the real victims are really our constituents, who, throughout the State, will be negatively impacted by this impasse.

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, but in the mean time, you know, it is 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?

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 cuts that may very well cause some…

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.

I thank the gentlelady for yielding. Mr. Speaker, today this body is voting on two updated bills that reflect the needs of FY 2013 and 10 outdated plans with outdated spending levels that were enacted over a year ago. Mr. Speaker, we need…

I am satisfied. Thank you.

Since the incident with Representative Giffords, I feel like we have an obligation to our colleagues to make sure that there is district office security...