we need some help from outside, even from those who have been on Capitol Hill for a while.

I want to thank both of you for your work on this.

This simple fact should serve as a galvanizing call to action.

We're here, I think, because we're summoned by our conscience, first of all. And we're concerned about security.

Overcoming hunger should be one of the starting points for U.S. foreign policy.

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The bill would make long-range agricultural productivity and rural development a top development priority.

The Obama administration has rightly prioritized food security.

Our hopes for economic development in poor countries will continually be frustrated if populations are unable to feed themselves.

I think, in a way, that it's unprecedented, when you think about what the Congress can do, what the administration can do, and what our international friends can do.

Thank you both for your service.

this can be a very positive development for these great institutions and the students and professors.

These partnerships are also a key component of the Global Food Security legislation that Senators Lugar and Casey are sponsoring.

we want to have an honest dialogue here about implementing their initiative and getting our legislation passed.

I think it happens to be both.

May I just ask you--when you started--or, I should say, when the new administration started, what was that number?

We think it's important to, one, let all of this proceed.

But, here's the problem for a lot of Americans. They feel as if they have no control, or no ability to impact the control, of rising costs.

I know I'm way over time. I'll stop. But, it's my sense you've been pretty reluctant to join these reforms.

What I can't understand is, Why has your industry, for years, so aggressively--spending lots of money doing it, not just using your voice, but using your dollars--to oppose efforts to do just what you and I have just had a discussion about?

I think, makes a good bit of sense.

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