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Mr. NUSSLE. We have been asking questions on behalf of some 

 of the folks from Iowa. 



The other thing I would like to say is to Mr. Kirby, who is still 

 here, from Florida, if you didn't hit the nail on the head, I don't 

 know who did about photo ops. It is easy to do that when the disas- 

 ter is going on. It is real easy to walk around with a wrinkled brow 

 and show your concern, but it is tough in December after every- 

 thing is maybe a little drier than it was in Iowa and a little calmer 

 than it was in Florida to really put your nose to the grindstone and 

 fulfill the promises you made as you were standing in front of the 

 television camera making them. 



We want to do that. The kind of people that you have sent out 

 here from your States will be responsible enough to follow up on 

 these questions that you have asked, on the statements you have 

 made, and on the problems that concern your particular situations. 



Hopefully, we can find some answers. The answers may not be 

 good, but I think what I am hearing today is that if we do not get 

 good answers, as Dan said in his closing, let's get together and fig- 

 ure out how to solve this so it does not happen again. 



With that, I want to thank and commend the subcommittee for 

 caring enough at this late time during the year to pay some atten- 

 tion to this. I appreciate that. 



Mrs. Thurman. We thank you for being here. And not to delay 

 this, but in talking to the chairman, I think there will still be op- 

 portunities for us to consider continuing these conversations and 

 making the USDA aware of these issues. 



So we will make sure that the record will be open for 10 days. 



If there are any questions or anything we can offer you, we 

 would like to put in that information. 



We appreciate your being here. Thank you. 



[Whereupon, at 5:50 p.m., the subcommittee was adjourned, to 

 reconvene, subject to the call of the Chair.] 



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