With the product, with the farm, with the information to ultimately make their buying choice easier and inspiring and feeding their family a more healthy, nutritious meal. So i see the landscape looking very different over the next five years, especially as it relates to marketing both not just on air, but social marketing with those iphones that inspire people to eat more fruits and vegetables and drive consumption. All right, paul very good. Five years . I wish i could projection the next six months, but ill give a shot at fife years. And, you know, again, as we come off of the years weve enjoyed over the last tree years three years, i think we come off of those highs into more normalized prices, its going to restore demand. You know, i think were going to see more demand for livestock production and all the things that go with that, our ethanol producers and even biomaterials from agricultural sources will be more competitive economically, and then global trade will also um prove at
Looking to negotiate [indiscernible] did you point out that conversation saying they were done with negotiating with the president . [indiscernible] isi am pointing out it ironic for somebody who has declared on National Television they are no longer willing to negotiate. The president has said clearly what his principles are, they are encapsulated in his budget, and you and all republicans will have the opportunity to pour over the details in the couple weeks. Back to what you plan to do with them, he is not going to convene negotiations [indiscernible] going to try to sell these things to the republic to the public . You can expect the president will do what he has done the last several weeks, to lay out clearly what his principles are, priorities are to put in place to increase economic opportunity. He will encourage congress to act on them and demonstrate his willingness to act where congress does not. It does not mean that he has given up on congress, but it means he is not going
Couple of years to increase the numbers, then let him come to congress so that we can meet our constitutional responsibility and vote either yes or no and then with pride know we did what the constitution required. Next wednesday, i will go to walter reed at bethesda to see three marines who were severely injured in afghanistan in the last month. I dont know how severely they are. It might be legs are gone. It might be brain injuries, and yet we in congress continue to advocate our constitutional responsibility to these young men and young women, and i will tell you that the marines down at camp lejeune and cherry point, which is in my district, are sick and tired of this involvement in afghanistan. One last point. The former commandant of the marine corps has been my advisor for the last five years on afghanistan, and he has said, why doesnt congress understand history . You will never change afghanistan, no matter how much blood or money you send to afghanistan, you will never change
The presiding officer any senators wishing to cast their vote . The yeas are 45, the nays are 52. The motion is not agreed to. Mr. Barrasso mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from wyoming is recognized. The senate will be in order. Take your conversations out of the chamber. Mr. Barrasso parliamentary inquiry. Is it correct that no the presiding officer the senator cannot be heard. The senate will be in order. Mr. Barrasso mr. President , parliamentary inquiry. Is it correct that no senator is permitted to offer an amendment to this bill while the majority leaders amendment or motions are pending . The presiding officer at this time, there is no place for other amendments on the senators amendment tree, so that is correct. Mr. Barrasso i move to table the reed amendment number 3025, and i ask for the yeas and nays. The presiding officer is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote the presiding officer any senators wish
Should get an answer when you say we have to tell parents that they have to Pay Attention to that, thats great, however, i want to know how were going to tell parents. Do we have a plan . I think of this as a campaign. We need a plan, an information sharing plan, a communication plan because we know we have big jobs to communicate a whole new system and we need to know how were going to do that. Not now but soon. So i want to clarify the word pilot test. What the state is doing is theyre pretesting the items. By pretesting the items, theyre going to select items that will comprise off a test. As of now they dont have a test in place. Theyre just testing the items. The field items has the content to the standards but theres a lot more that the items need to have to be put into a test. And as of now, yes it is very Good Practice for us as a district to expose students and the district staff both to the content and the format of the test. Can i i would like to suggest. This is a really ho