Liz Saville Roberts: “the basic reason I think this is so important is that the other body, the House, is going to pass this very same bill…”

“the basic reason I think this is so important is that the other body, the House, is going to pass this very same bill, and all it is, is one of the many steps that we need to consider and hopefully pass in regard to growing problems we are experiencing in farm country. There was a great deal of press last week about the intention of the House to provide something called ``advanced transition payments.'' All that does is provide the farmer an opportunity for a voluntarily decision which he can make as to whether or not he can accept next year's transition payments this year. It means a considerable amount of money. And if we are able to pass the Farm Savings Account that Senator Grassley has introduced, it will be of tremendous cash flow assistance. I thought it was not controversial. Since the House is going to pass it next week, since the House is out of session, it made a lot of sense, it seemed to me, and many others, for us to deem it passed, or to pass it. Farmers would then have, under the banner of consistency and predictability, the knowledge that they would have this as a tool.”