The sugar program's sole purpose is to prop up the price of sugar in the United States through a complex system of low-interest, nonrecourse loans and tight import restrictions.

Mr. Speaker, today myself, Representative George Miller and more than 40 of our colleagues are introducing the Sugar Program Reform Act, a bill to phase out the sugar program by the end of 2002.

The sugar program is an archaic, unnecessary government handout to corporate sugar producers at the expense of consumers, workers, and the environment.

Finally, it hampers our ability to expand trade opportunities for America's farmers.

The Sugar Program Reform Act will do what the 1996 farm bill failed to accomplish.

This legislation is good for consumers, good for the environment, good for American workers, and good for the economy.

It devastates the environment, particularly the fragile Everglades in my home State of Florida.

As a result, the sugar program imposes a 'sugar tax' on consumers, forcing them to pay more than $1 billion in higher prices for food and sugar every year.

The sugar program is the 'sugar daddy' of corporate welfare. Why? Because most of the benefits of this program go to huge corporate sugar producers, not the typical family farmer.

It is never too late to right wrongs committed in the past.

I am proud to honor this American hero.

I rise today to pay tribute to Polish people around the world.

It is heartening to know that those who suffered so long under oppression are now willing to share in the burden of preserving freedom.

I am glad that Poland is now a full partner in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization--NATO.

crop protection tools are necessary for family farmers to provide a safe and reliable food supply to the consumer

I urge my colleagues to support this very important legislation.

Mr. Barrett's heartfelt compassion and positive impact upon Miami's vulnerable youth are such that 97% of the young people freely choose to remain at the counseling centers longer than the thirty days' mandatory commitment.

Mr. Barrett continuously has made himself available to aiding Miami's citizens at all hours, both at home and at his office.