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With each one of you to try to craft a longterm piece of legislation to guide our nations farmers and ranchers and give them the certitude they need. My home state is the home of over 48,000 farms, and we have over 1 billion in farm exports a year. So this is a pretty big deal to us. Im honored they gave me an opportunity to be here and work on it. We strongly prefer to keep the usda food safety and Inspection Service catfish inspection program. In addition, the setting of target prices, which are vital to many alabama farmers. I also support giving the livestock industry relief from the troublesome mandatory country of origin labeling mandates. The negotiations we face will be tough, and i am certain that not any conferee is going to go home with everything they want. But its important that we be responsible stewards of the taxpayers dollars by maintaining the programs that are working and reforming those that dont. I believe we can work through these differences in a timely and bipar
Government company was privatized in britain. The British Government did that for the same reason weve got problems with our u. S. Yes. Declining mail volume and deed for greater efficiency in the market economy. So britain has done. Iselin note i see no reason why this country cant privatized its postal system. Thank you very much. Thank you. Mr. Arnold. Minus Brandon Arnold and the Vice President of Government Affairs for the National Taxpayers union. Thank you to the committee and the chairmen and ranking ever for having me today. Lef. By myself i would include a heck of a lot more, but you know, when you are cooperating there is a lot to talk about bipartisan cooperation. We are very pleased to work to find stuff that we both agreed upon. I dont have time to go through all 65 recommendations in this brief period but the report is included in some entire dna binder and i hope that without objection the entire binder be placed on the record. I hope he will share it with your staff an
The appendices about what, how to design and make manageable your local and state election website. These are developed by david, for those who know her. And expert who is develop these field guides, and one is state voter websites. [inaudible] mentioned two states that have gone to all mail voting. Is any discussion among the commissioners of the test and received or in the report about the virtue of each state retaining is one option among these other early voting options or things like that, but retaining as one option the voting day, you know, first tuesday after the first monday, at least for federal elections as provided in title ii. Retaining that one day for voting just because of the civic virtue value of having that opportunity to exercise that one day. I know ms. Patrick talked about not reducing the resources that are needed for that one day, and i think some of us feel its very important to have that one day, but going to all mail is a mistake. I was wondering if you discu
Right now the incentive for agency is to add more staff and chase down more dollars and spend as much as you can at the end of the year. You mentioned spending caps. Sequestration caps and other caps hit at every single program. There are some programs that run more efficiently than others but a cap like sequestration hits all of them with an equal amount of fury. If eui gave the agency the authority to cut 20 from their budget there is very little oversight of which programs they will cut and they will keep the ones they like best and cut those that probably i like the best. Talk through different options you have seen for incentivizing agencies for reduction. I list 15 reasons why the Public Sector will never be as efficient as the private sector. The profit motive in the private sector is usually powerful and the government doesnt have that. Theres been lots of talk for payforperformance in the federal government for decades but it never happens and i dont think it can. The governme