Political Quotes

“there is a little confusion as to which vote will be held, but I have to call this Santorum amendment the confusion amendment. We have, of course, argued in the past that we reformed it. And we have reformed it, the peanut program. But now we are having here, where the Senator from Pennsylvania argues that, since other commodities have a payment limitation, therefore peanuts ought to. First, the confusion is that peanuts have never had a payment. They have not had a payment. The confusion here is that he is confusing a loan program with a payment program. You had deficiency payments, which were based upon a target price in all the commodities. But peanuts never had that. And that is where the limitation was on, was on the payments. Now you have, under the new farm bill, direct payments. You do not even have to plant in order to get your payment. You preserve your history. But the limit there is on the direct payment, the money that comes to you, the mailbox money, regardless of whether you plant or not plant. And there is a confusion there.”