L In the performance of those commit26540 ments. the subcommittee has conducted 33 days of public hearings in Washington and around the country. We heard 401 witnesses. Their testimony took 144 hours. We received countless statements for the record. We made 11 inspection trips in the field all over the United States. -I have been in the last 6 months to Jackson. Miss.. Phoenix. Ariz.. Albuquerque. N. Mex.. San Francisco. Calif.. and to the San Joaquin Valley in California to study the migrant program and rural poverty. I have been not only to Jackson. Miss.. but also from there north to the Tennessee border. investigating and taking testimony with respect to abject poverty in the Mississippi Delta counties.