Tom Latham: “I take great offense to that. It is not pork to have people who are safe in their homes. I do not care where they live…”

“I take great offense to that. It is not pork to have people who are safe in their homes. I do not care where they live in this country. I will also say that when we talk about this formula, talk about threat, the fact of the matter is there are some very, very large threats or potential threats in rural areas, whether you talk about nuclear energy plants, whatever. But just because they do not have people living immediately around them, they are not going to be eligible for any of the funds at all. I would also like to address one quick point talking about intelligence. The fact of the matter is there were hundreds of U.S. agriculture documents that were found in al Qaeda caves and also a large part of the al Qaeda training manual is devoted to agri-terrorism. If you do not like to eat in New York, apparently, let us just forget about the rest of the country.”