We are going to continue to beat this drum.

The pay system just was not flexible enough to accommodate and remain competitive with the private sector.

For people who do not know, Portal is much more remote.

So, at your level of managing this are you looking strategically at each one of these border crossing locations' staffing?

I have been fighting to address these challenges that have been faced by the Federal workforce in the Bakken region.

I just want to mention something in this context.

I think it is one of the problems that we have with the Federal Government across the board, which is one-size-fits-all.

I am so pleased that today we are going to focus on a topic that is so important to my home State of North Dakota.

Thank you so much. And, if I can just make one point, this whole problem, it seems to me, transitions to our broader issue, which is how do we recruit the next generation of Federal workforce.

I mean, I think the fact that there is not, here, plug it in, this is the need, let us make sure that this happens.

I believe the science is so strong in this area that these are products that will not have an adverse effect in any way on health.

We constantly try and deal with the facts that are in front of us instead of looking at this in an historic context.