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Robert Berry: “Mr. Speaker, our farmers need the assistance in this bill, and they need a lot more. The funding in this bill is just…”

On the recordOctober 1, 1999
Mr. Speaker, our farmers need the assistance in this bill, and they need a lot more. The funding in this bill is just simply not enough. The other side of the aisle comes to the well over and over to criticize the lack of action on trade issues, yet when they have the opportunity, they fail to lift the sanctions on Cuba and other countries for food and medicine for only political reasons. Mr. Speaker, this is shameful. This bill is inadequate. I will vote for it, but once again we are forcing America's farmers to pay for the political and foreign policy failures. The majority leadership should be ashamed of this bill because they did not accomplish what they should have for America's farmers.
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Robert Berry
Arkansas
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Addressing the inadequacies of a bill intended to assist farmers.

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