The more important thing, though, for disease surveillance is to have movement information.

We're just now getting back into that marketplace. What we're trying to do is build a long-term relationship for a billion pounds of beef-trade. You simply can't allow mistakes like this to occur.

The fact of the matter is we'll get $450 million dollars of that market back, but the other $400 million we won't with the current agreement. We're looking at a hollow victory.

Japanese consumers are important to us. They are a key to our success.

There's no kitty CDC, so it's not a reportable disease and there isn't really any place that information is gathered on disease incidence,

Vice President Dick Cheney is currently out in South Dakota on a three-day hunting trip. What better place for a man who has had four heart attacks than to be carrying a big gun and a backpack through the snow looking for red meat.