On the recordJune 19, 2013
I will try to be fast at this. To the gentlewoman from Ohio, actually, I want to be careful in my language because I did say purchase grocery stores. It's basically finance their acquisitions through loans and other mechanics. It would be unfair to use the Solyndra type, but it is that mechanic of doing those loan mechanics and those things. And functionally, the taxpayers do have money out and risk in that fashion. Look, for many of us here, we see an amendment like this, we see the well-meaning nature of it, but the underlying cause of much of this is the global policy we engage in--and we have for 60, 70 years. We seem to be, if you look at all the amendments and really dig through this farm bill, I believe you will see layer after layer after layer where we're trying to fix sins that we created with our last attempt to fix a mistake. I appreciate we have a crisis in parts of our country--whether it be access to healthy foods, whether it be obesity--but a $125 million program that creates special grants, special purchases, special loans, this isn't the way you get there to fix that. With that, Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Schweikert). The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes appeared to have it.
