Tim Johnson: “I return to work today to this great body with a renewed spirit and a sharper focus.”

I return to work today to this great body with a renewed spirit and a sharper focus.

The country of origin labeling law gave USDA discretion to create an audit verification system, but not a mandatory system.

This is one report that I hope will not be one of those gathering dust reports, but will be truly an impetus to very major action on the part of this committee and this Congress.

And that self-verification is indeed what we do in many other labeling circumstances, whether it is school lunch programs and all kinds of other things, Black Angus, you name it.