The hope is that by raising awareness about environmental issues as well as others, hopefully that will have an influence on how people behave, and eventually maybe how they vote.

I feel heavy pressure. I don't think the setback will influence me at home, but I hope I can ignore the home crowd and purely focus on the game.

We hope that the ideas that come out of these meetings in each congressional district will, one, raise awareness of the problem and, number two, will give us some feedback which we can then go to the Arkansas Bar Association and go to the legislature in 2007, go to the Supreme Court and show what the needs are and how the public perceives the needs and try to get some additional funding. Our funding has continuously fallen since 2002.

We have the hope that it will be before Christmas.

We hope these things will help.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves, and it remains when all else is gone.