Five weeks is ridiculous, imo. Are the folks in your part of the state as upset with Hagel as we are in the Northeast?
I'm in the panhandle and yes, he's not very popular out here at all.
I actually got a call from his staff once about an issue(taxes) and they assured me that he was working on it, yeah right. Since then it's been about 5 weeks for a response. But I've been sort of hostile also.