Words are important but coming away with that respect for what everybody in this business does every single day to stay in it, I am amazed. You know, and however you want to borrow money to work every day to make that happen, good for you, right, but we should respect that. That, to me, is really important. Really important. And we want to capture that in the spirit of this report, that that really is, at the end of the day, a strong statement for the USDA, the Secretary and every one of us around the table. So thank you for engaging in this conversation, being constructive. There are some miles to go yet but I'm pretty proud of what we have so thank you. Okay. Any final? MR. SCHECHTMAN: A final word or two. First, I want to thank all of you for your energy, your commitment and your flexibility. There's things in this report for everyone not to like and maybe there's a few less of those today than there was at the beginning of the meeting yesterday. As I said earlier, in looking back on the previous efforts that groups have undertaken to come up with recommendations on bolstering coexistence, we know how difficult what you have moved towards doing today is to have accomplished. I don't know what the final votes are going to be from everyone on whether you're joining consensus and with or without comments but I'm really very encouraged and I think
Words are important but coming away with that respect for what everybody in this business does every single day to stay in it, I am amazed. You know, and however you want to borrow money to work every day to make that happen, good for you, right, but we should respect that. That, to me, is really important. Really important. And we want to capture that in the spirit of this report, that that really is, at the end of the day, a strong statement for the USDA, the Secretary and every one of us around the table. So thank you for engaging in this conversation, being constructive. There are some miles to go yet but I'm pretty proud of what we have so thank you. Okay. Any final? MR. SCHECHTMAN: A final word or two. First, I want to thank all of you for your energy, your commitment and your flexibility. There's things in this report for everyone not to like and maybe there's a few less of those today than there was at the beginning of the meeting yesterday. As I said earlier, in looking back on the previous efforts that groups have undertaken to come up with recommendations on bolstering coexistence, we know how difficult what you have moved towards doing today is to have accomplished. I don't know what the final votes are going to be from everyone on whether you're joining consensus and with or without comments but I'm really very encouraged and I think
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