We need to always be vigilant on the sanitary issues.

The world is really figuring BSE out, and that's positive.

I ended up being the governor of a very ag state, Nebraska.

We asked ourselves and the world to base decisions on good science, and I really believe the United States can be the leader in delivering that message to our international trading partners.

We had Taiwan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Oman open their markets to our beef, and we're excited about that.

The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit.

Today, we can tell people we have a testing process and facilities in place on a nationwide basis.