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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

We have got to be careful about that.

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.

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