Judd Gregg: “we are here to vote on the override of some portion of the farm bill which the President has vetoed. First, there is the…”

“we are here to vote on the override of some portion of the farm bill which the President has vetoed. First, there is the great irony that the bill we are voting on isn't the bill that passed the Senate or the House. It is some element of that bill, other parts of the bill having not made it to the President. That sort of becomes an allegory for this entire exercise. This is a bill that really doesn't do the job it should, is incomplete in the sense that it fails the American taxpayer and consumer, and is misguided in that it spends a great deal of money, perverting the marketplace relative to the production of agricultural products. But we are here because of what was a bureaucratic snafu, I presume. We all know the President's veto is going to be overridden, but the President was right to veto this bill. He was absolutely right. I said earlier--I know my colleagues take this in the sense of irony with which I make it, not in any personal way--this bill truly is a product of commissar politics, of the old approach that we saw years ago in countries that thought that they could have a top-down management of their farm production system.”