I was very pleased to hear you say that right out of the box, you are going to look toward implementation of the farm bill.

I am all for modernizing and maintaining aircraft, and other equipment for that matter, that have useful service life left and that it makes sense to modernize.

Our ability to maintain air sovereignty in the future is at risk. Legacy fighters are aging and will be stressed to maintain reliability and capability as we move into the 2013-2025 time frame. The tradeoff between modernization of…

Congress has forced you to keep C-130s that you've wanted to retire and added funds to the budget for maintaining them.

Are you comfortable with where you see us headed over the next 10 to 15 years about having that capacity?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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