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Frank Riggs: Mr. Chairman, let me just say, first of all, the 5 largest recipients of market access promotion funds purchase over 90…

On the recordJune 12, 1996
Mr. Chairman, let me just say, first of all, the 5 largest recipients of market access promotion funds purchase over 90 percent of their grapes from small independent grape growers. This is a program that is working. It is a public-private partnership that has been improved by the Congress over the last few years. I just want to remind my colleagues that this same amendment went down to defeat in this House last year on a vote of 268 to 130. The American wine industry and the farmers who depend on that industry need our help to again defeat the Kennedy amendment.
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Frank Riggs
California

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Discussing the importance of market access promotion funds for the American wine industry.

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