Saxby Chambliss

The roving wiretap still is one of the more valuable types of tools that I think--I hope at least--that you will find is something that is critically important to our folks.

It will save us money in the long run if you do have more families participating in the program.

I think the problem we have got, Mr. Chairman, is that with the cost of fuel particularly increasing, skyrocketing in such a fast manner, all school boards had a significant issue all of a sudden that they didn't anticipate at the…

These programs have a proven track record of not only alleviating hunger in the United States, but also improving the nutritional intake of children and their families.

Last, Mr. Hecht, you mentioned in your testimony and in your written statement that this paperwork in your program is a real problem.

Throwing money at it is not necessarily the answer to it.

I want to particularly welcome my school nutrition folks from Georgia who are here and who do such a great job of making sure that Georgia's children are prepared to be educated.

Did your study look at the impact of school policies regarding a la carte or vending sales?

I think this is an area that we need to address in this legislation and your testimony this morning on that has been very valuable.

Child obesity obviously is a problem that all of us are concerned about now, and the fact that it does go up rather than going down is also pretty alarming.

What we tend to do as policymakers here in Washington all too often is that we create these programs and they are all great programs.

We truly believe that USDA needs the authority to regulate everything in the district, because then we can all conform to dietary guidelines.

If you don't have strong support from parents, then it makes it much more difficult to educate a child.

These are obviously very difficult economic times and every area of our economy, and I know school districts are looking for every way they can to try to recoup the tremendous overhead that they are seeing.

With these budget times that we're in, trying to figure out a way to buy the weapon systems that we need within the timeframe we need is virtually impossible.

One reason that I was kind of pursuing a line of questioning relative to what may happen with respect to offshore trading is I think Mr. Gensler is exactly right, that we didn't envision 10 years ago what was going to happen in the…

If you talk about eliminating, I think you really cause problems.

We can't even conceive what they are.

I think all of us want to make sure that the American public is totally protected.

We look forward to continuing a dialog on the issues that we know face this industry and look forward to working with you down the road.

We have got to be careful about that.

I do appreciate the goals of this legislation and I will be offering an amendment that I believe will help meet those goals.

Our staffs have worked well together to make what I believe to be some necessary improvements to the bill.

Thank you Mr. Chairman and let me just echo the sentiments that you have stated, and Senator Bennett and Senator Nelson have stated with reference to the work on this.

I worked very closely with him. Now that he is Chairman, we continue to work very closely together and your commitment to this has just been unbelievable.