John Tierney: “I would hope that the chairman would just know, this is the second year we have presented this motion; and I think it is…”

“I would hope that the chairman would just know, this is the second year we have presented this motion; and I think it is a pretty balanced motion. We are seeking here to both give consumers confidence, that the gentleman from Ohio points out very clearly is a very big concern for people; but we also are trying to make sure that farmers know that they can go to the market with confidence. It is going to do us no good in terms of the economics of our society to have a bunch of farmers that are creating a product in which the consumers have no confidence, so there is no market there. This particular amendment was a hope to strike the point where we get the National Academy of Science to determine for us what is the best testing regime, what is the best way to monitor this as it goes through, and what is the best way to make sure that we have a regulatory structure to give the confidence at both of those levels.”