Liz Saville Roberts: “I do not know of any Member who has worked harder and persevered more and put up with more and received more brickbats…”

“I do not know of any Member who has worked harder and persevered more and put up with more and received more brickbats for his efforts than Steve Gunderson. Many Members look at this issue with very parochial interests, and that is the nicest way that I can put it. Steve Gunderson loses more cows in his district every year than they have. He has worked harder and longer to achieve true dairy policy reform than anyone else; 10,000 traveled miles to conduct the field hearings. Now, it is a fact of life, nobody is ever going to be happy or satisfied with any dairy provision. My suggestion is when we go to the conference on dairy, we hold it in Sarajevo. But the committee language... represents the greatest amount of dairy program reform in its history. In terms of farm income, we increase dairy farmer income by $4 billion. The gentleman from New York and the gentleman from California cut dairy income by $3.7, a difference of $7.7 billion. We save more money. We eliminate two-thirds of the Federal milk marketing orders.”