mr. jordan. i'd like to start with mr. taylor. mr.ylor, ready-to-eat is a marketing slogan assuring that the salad in a package is safe for consumption without requiring further washing or cutting by the consumers. the calgama is a voluntarily industry sponsor means of ensuring quality and safety of processed leafy greens, including those to be marketed as ready-to-eat. it was developed to preempt legislative regulatory action from the state of california assembly. has calgama made pre-cut salads safer than they were before? and if yes, what's the basis for that opinion? >> mr. chairman, the practices, producer practices embodied in that agreement, it's implemented to make a contribution to making the food safer. i think we all understand that the safety of the product ultimately depends on what happens not only at that point, on the production end, but through processing and the way the product is handled throughout. >> when you say contribution, what do you mean? >> well -- >> what is the science behind that? >> the safety of these

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mr. jordan who died recently, i said what was in those bags, because it was a show of strength and he said nothing. that's when i -- that was an insult to my intelligence, what little there was left. >> you have a number of drawings of ronald reagan. what do you think of reagan? >> the duty. you can't deny his good looks but you can't deny just about everything else. i still believe his hair was colored by staining rather than normal, but i oppose almost basically everything he stood for. >> i see a picture of alan greenspan. >> yeah. i have a very full knowledge there. whatever knowledge i picked up was out of whatever the article was, and you probably read it in "the new york times" as well. there is several times when that would have been where i knew i could count by more than one respectable issue, and helped give me a little balance has to, you know, how i treated certain people. >> there are a number of different pages where you have supreme court nominees, nixon -- >> these administrations came loaded with their teammates. that's being very fair to them, teammates. i mean, there wa

mr. jordan and thank the witnesses for being here. our hearing today has been ready to eat or not. examining the impact of leafy greens marketing agreements. we had panels and this committee stands adjourned. thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] the senate judiciary committee voted to recommend the confirmation of sonia sotomayor and supreme court justice. what the committee debate and see the vote today on c-span at 7:00 p.m. eastern. next week, her confirmation moves to the senate floor. live coverage of the full senate debate on c-span2. coming in october on c-span, tour the homes to america's highest court, the supreme court. >> join the conversation on civil rights and race relations with juan williams lives sunday at noon eastern on c-span2. >> friday, the gross domestic product report was released. president obama talks about the steps his administration has taken to revive the economy. he is followed by the south dakota senator who compares health care proposals. >> i would like to tal

mr. jason sweeney and cannot jason. >> jeremiah. >> mike: kaman jeremiah. >> his twin brother jedediah. >> mike: i love that name. my jedediah. >> there is joy in a anti-jordan. >> and jordan grace is the newest in the baby. seven months. >> and josiah. and let's see joseph. >> there is ginger and johanna. and there is just a and i don't know i forgot that one's name. i was wondering if they were thrown in there. and we didn't know. that's yours, governor. >> mike: okay to tell everybody what we did. that is miles the son of one of our staff members. we just wanted to see if we could catch you off guard. >> what a cutie. >> mike: it's a good thing he didn't just say we will do that when the name and keep them. >> there is joe and jennifer. john david. >> mike: were running out of seats hear packers missed janet. john david stein. but we have everybody? let's give the man. >> mike: one thing i wanted to ask you about, it has to be a challenge with this many children. a lot of people have seen the unfortunate situation with john and eight -- john and kate +8. the other show for children. her family is nothing like that. another some differences. tell me what y

mr. jason. >> jason. >> come out jason. >> there we go. >> jeremiah. >> jeremiah. >> come on, jeremiah. >> his twin brother jedia. >> i love that name, another good one. >> come on. >> and jewel &a and jordanordan grace is the newest. >> how is she. >> seven months. >> how much? >> seven months. josiah. >> and let's see, joseph. >> hi, joseph. >> there's ginger and johanna. >> ginger and joe hahna. >> and jesta, i don't know, i forgot that one's name. >> i new they were going to throw one in there. >> yours, governor. >> okay, i've got to tell everybody, what they did, and that's one of our staff member's and we wanted to see if we could catch you off guard. >> oh, what a cuty. >> at least you didn't say, well, we'll give that one a name and keep him. >> and jill and generjennifer. >> hi, jill and jennifer. >> john david. >> we're running out of seats here. >> who else. >> miss jana. >> and twins. >> have we got everybody. >> most of them. >> hey, you did good, let's give them a hand (applause) >> one of the things i wanted to ask you guys about. it's got to be a challenge with this many children and a lot of people have seen that the unfortunate situation with jon and eight plus kate, the

jordan, of psycho doughnut? >> absolutely not. peter: ok. let's talk about head trauma. you heard what mr. wright has to say.'s a lot of people who are offended by that. would you this morning say, we're going to pull the head trauma doughnut, can you do that now? >> no, we're not willing to do that. i would say we are a progressive company. and ever since are the start of our company five months ago we do plan to evolve the company. and it's part of the evolution. i believe that everyone will be able to find a doughnut that they can enjoy at psycho doughnuts. peter: oscar, how should people react to psycho doughnuts? should they go to that store, should they not go to that store? what thud she do at that point? >> me should basically get in contact with the storeowner and express their dissatisfaction for what i consider for humor applied in the wrong way. peter, i have absolutely nothing -- i see nothing wrong with the organization beings entrepreneurial. -- being entrepreneurial. using the free market system using -- making a profit. what i have a problem with is using mental health terminology out of con

mr. jordan. i'd like to start with mr. taylor. mr. taylor, ready-to-eat is a marketing slogan assuring that the salad in a package is safe for consumption without requiring further washing or cutting by the consumers. the calgama is a voluntarily industry sponsor means of ensuring quality and safety of processed leafy greens, including those to be marketed as ready-to-eat. it was developed to preempt legislative regulatory action from the state of california assembly. has calgama made pre-cut salads safer than they were before? and if yes, what's the basis for that opinion? >> mr. chairman, the practices, producer practices embodied in that agreement, it's implemented to make a contribution to making the food safer. i think we all understand that the safety of the product ultimately depends on what happens not only at that point, on the production end, but through processing and the way the product is handled throughout. >> when you say contribution, what do you mean? >> well -- >> what is the science behind that? >> the safety of the