Pete Domenici: “With reference to the farm bill, I do not come to this Chamber too often on a farm bill, but I will be on this one…”

“With reference to the farm bill, I do not come to this Chamber too often on a farm bill, but I will be on this one because, first of all, it is an abomination for milk production in America and for our children who drink a lot of milk and for those in America who are encouraged to drink a lot of milk. This is a bill calculated to increase the price of milk dramatically so as to spread around a new tax so all of those producing milk can get a fair share of the new tax; not so we will produce competition and there will be a big incentive to produce good, solid, healthy milk at lower prices but, rather, to make sure those areas of the country that are not producing milk in a competitive manner will get made whole at the expense of the very competitive States such as mine and Idaho and others, that are producing substantially new ways to be competitive, safe, sound, and produce rather cheap milk for the American children and American people.”