Too often it is one party power and sticks it to the other party. And then secondly i know you mentioned geographic concerns. We try to putt some other limitations on the map drawing process by requiring districts to be drawn more according to county lines or natural geographic features rather than just these crazy districts that squiggle around. Thats not you know not easy to do but one thing it does is makes it possible impossible for people to be too key yative. Some of the districts are very, very creative and having little bit more limitation on the process, open process about how to redistrict we are for. We werent willing to go as some people say to go to california or arizona which have models which are more completely out of the political process. They have turned it over to citizens. They dont want the legislature or the parties involved. Our commission really believed that having both parties have a say in those maps made sense but we did agree with you in many ways redistri
We want to keep using our military do go into the other countries, take a bill with us figure out what its going to cost and tell them that you pay half when we get there and half when the jobs done. We cant keep affording to go and police the world and some of the social programs like Social Security so easy to fix. When the kid comes out of the Social Security on year one, start taking taxes out. Dont wait 18 or 20 years. Take a little bit out of earned Income Credit and not miss it. It would fix Social Security and probably give a little bit of money there for health care that the whole country needs. Okay. Caller i think those are a couple of good things to start with. All right. John fortier the budget. We with respect taking positions like wars and entitlement. Those are functions for congress to address. I think if youre getting at the budget process, thats something we made recommendations about and the Bipartisan Policy Center has additional recommendations out of an economic
The committee did their work. It was in the full committee. What are your views on this issue . Well, congressman, i think it is important to point out that we approach the institute of medicine to ask for advice on how to structure a system that will provide assistance at a women, infant and children. They took the job seriously and said we should focus on food were products that would that were healthy and not normally used by women, infant and children. The issue with potatoes and the average american consumes 90 pounds of potatoes a year, it is like 88. 7 pounds of potatoes. So the institute believed it would be appropriate to focus on vegetables that were not consumed at the same level of quantity and wanted us to focus on green, orange and red vegetables which we have done in the wic program. The report says we have nothing against potatoes but this is a Supplemental Program and that is why they are not included and we focus on more alternatives that are not purchased by women fo
Billion in crops. Billionl protect 165 in livestock, poultry, and specialty crops as a result of this budget. Ag will continue to support 140 billion in agricultural exports which helps to support one million jobs at home. The food and nutrition Assistance Programs will benefit nearly 47 million americans under the snap program. 8. 7 women, infant and children under the wic program. Thellion children under summer feeding programs. The food safety budget will provide assistance in detecting our food supply and reducing foodborne illnesses by estimated 52,000 illnesses. Nrcs will provide conservation assistance that will add 23 million acres of land to our conservation programs, helping half a million producers do a better job of conserving soil and protecting water. While it is not related to this budget, it does have an impact on this budget. Our overall budget will also million acres of forest and grasslands under the u. S. Forest service, which will protect 70,000 communities that ar
Assist and help in preserving our agricultural production, and expand new uses and opportunities for agricultural products. And we will also focus on an effort to do a better job of addressing the challenges that the poultry industry in particular face with disease. We have antiquated facilities, which is, frankly, true of our entire Agricultural Research service. We need a new and creative way to address the challenges of our infrastructure, and one way we can do that is by taking a look at our unobligated balances as representative farr had suggested, allowing us to retain those balances, that are within a budget thats been approved by this committee, and use them to upgrade our facilities. This would also give us an opportunity to better manage and perhaps reduce the 70 million square feet of space that we currently operate, lease or own. As i shared with you earlier, yesterday, mr. Chairman, i think there is an opportunity for us to save significant resources by rightsizing our ren