among the public but officials completely disagree on this side of things that the united states department of agriculture says rest stop would mean is safe and the u.s.d.a. currently does no testing of its own just to give you an idea of how much money is at stake here for the united states according to the u.s. meets export federation more than two hundred ten shipping containers filled with beef and pork valued at about twenty million dollars is currently on its way to russia and is going to be tested the united states in total exports about five hundred million dollars of meat every year to this country to comply with this rule and to not lose out on tens of millions of dollars at the very least the united states has got to put into place their own testing. the news for now all the business news and in a few minutes lottie's to boston talks to one of ages main opposition leaders who says president morsi is regime scientists to sell the nation's hopes for change. sometimes you see a story. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear sees some other part of it and realize ev

one of the questions i asked was simply how the united states department of agriculture interprets the federal law. we make federal law. we pass laws. i'd like to now how they're enforcing them and what standards they're using. federal law says that those likely to be reliant on welfare cannot be admitted to the united states. if you want to come to the united states and you meet the qualifications, you get to come but you have to show that you're not going to be dependent on the government for your food and aid and health and everything when you come. we've got lots of people that want to come to america. most of those people probably can come and sustain themselves. why would we be admitting those who can't, who are going to immediately go on the government assistance programs? but this law is effectively not being enforced. senators grassley and hatch and roberts, ranking members on key committees, and i sent a letter --. the presiding officer: the senator's time has expired. mr. sessions: i would ask an additional three minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. session

according to the information compiled for the united states department of agriculture, as you can see on that chart, 15% of the farms in south dakota are valued over $5 million. but look at the tphufpls farms valued -- number of farms valued over $1 million. 49%. look at california: 11% of the farms are valued at over $5 million but 42% of the farms are valued over $1 million. then there is montana where 7% of farms are valued over $5 million but 30% are valued over $1 million. not all of these farms will necessarily be impacted by the death tax next year, but i guarantee you that most of them will down the road. mr. president, the fiscal cliff presents us with a pivotal moment. how we tax our citizens is ultimately a question of what we stand for. with respect to the death tax, the question is whether we stand for families and jobs or whether we stand for redistribution regardless of the consequences. we need to resolve the death tax policy. we can no longer afford to put small business, family farms and individuals in a position where each year uncertainty about the death tax rate a

department. the h-2 grant. it frankly doesn't work. it works for about 4% of the agriculture industry in the united states. i say that as someone that drafted the legislation as part of simpson-masdemroley, not because i thought it was the best we could do but it was the best that could be accomplished in any legislation that was going forward. and so we are now confronted with a situation in which we have had large-scale illegal immigration into this country after the passage of simpson-mazolli and the failure to enforce the -- well, the failure to implement the enforcement side of that. we are also confronted with the question of legal immigration and the fact that right now we set aside too many visas. i am not in any way denigrated unskilled workers and those who come without skills and then develop them once they are here. our history is replete with those who have accomplished great things. having come to this country with nothing more than a desire to do well, a commitment to hard work and using the intelligence and the other skills -- skill capacity given by god. it makes no sense in which we have