mr. naggel bauer for a motion -- request, i mean. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to associate myself -- i think mr. king -- >> move to strike the last -- >> strike the last word. >> recognized for five minutes. >> with that, i think mr. king has a response to comments that have been made. and i yield my time to him. >> i thank the gentleman from texas for yielding. and in response to the rebuttals that have been offered here, i would point out to the committee that 25% of the nutrition assistance program in puerto rico is cash benefits. 75% of it is processed some other way. most of it, if not all of it, by processing electronically. and here's the information that i have, going into this hearing this morning. prior to 2006, many merchants could not reasonably acquire the technology to process ebt cards to accept s.n.a.p. benefits. but in 2006, the commonwealth's legislature replaced the excised tax on imports with an island-wide sales tax. to implement and administer the sales tax, every merchant had to have point of sale terminals capable of processing eb