Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

If they have a backlog with their testing, they have got to do something about it, and if we need to help them, then that is what we need to do.

I will be on you and at you with a sense of urgency to try and find some way to increase the amount of funding that we can get in Wisconsin.

I would like to welcome our witnesses again to this hearing, which turns out to be of some considerable importance.

It is the USDA's responsibility to make sure that the food supply is as safe as possible.

How they test and how frequently they test, how accurately they test is of enormous importance to us.

But that kind of a backlog would not be tolerated by you here.

Would you say, based on all the information you have, that the beef that is imported from Canada undergoes the same safety inspection as the beef that we raise here?

import inspection, or reinspection, as we call it, of meat and poultry that is imported into the United States is an extremely high priority with us at FSIS.

So whatever problems they have are our problems, isn't that true?

We do have concerns which obviously show in the actions that we took just the day before yesterday.