I would answer it in a little different way and try to have it pertain to this bill.
I welcome the opposition's input saying that this bill is a done deal. Well then, let's get a report back to the House later today and ask for unanimous consent to pass this at all stages. I think we'd be happy to do that, Mr. Chair. If you can get the paper work to us by question period or routine proceedings, I'd be happy to stand and say we have unanimous consent to see this bill passed at all stages and get it into the backlog in the Senate. If they get the justice bill out of the way, we can start to move some of this other product through.
So I welcome that intervention and I'd be happy to carry it forward. I take it as a strong endorsement from Mr. Easter.
On his other question, as it pertains to this bill I'm not going to get into the livestock sector. That's a discussion for another day, and those discussions are ongoing. But I will say that one of the major problems attacking our livestock industry today, whether you're talking about cattle or hogs, is the price of feed. If this program had been implemented ten years ago when we heard it talked about and when it was kicked around in these very halls, we would have distillers' grain and other byproducts from the ethanol and diesel industry to give livestock producers access to a cheaper feedstock.
We're playing catch-up here because there was a lot of talk—a lot of sound and fury, but no substance—for the last ten years about doing this type of program. We're behind the rest of the world in doing it, so we're playing catch-up. That's why this bill is before us today. It's part of the process that is required.
But I take Mr. Easter's intervention to heart. I'd be happy to stand today and ask for unanimous consent to move this bill at all stages, Mr. Chair.