Barbara Boxer: “I think the word of the day is ``delay.'' We are seeing an Agriculture bill, an emergency bill, being delayed. We are…”

“I think the word of the day is ``delay.'' We are seeing an Agriculture bill, an emergency bill, being delayed. We are not going to be on it. We are going to have to debate a motion to proceed. For those people who don't know the rules of the Senate, you can invoke these rules and it can go slow. We are seeing a delay in getting help to our farmers; and we are seeing anything but a delay in the day we will have the Mexican trucks come barreling through our highways and byways when we should delay that until we have enough inspectors. We are only inspecting 2 percent of the trucks, and out of that 2 percent, 35 percent of the trucks are failing and a lot of them have no brakes. I will not reiterate the horror stories and nightmares we heard in the committee. Where we have a delay, we don't want a delay; that is, to help our American farmers. And where the other side is trying to do away with the delay is the day that we have trucks coming through our border into the interior of our country that are ill-equipped for those journeys.”