On the recordJune 16, 2011
I rise with great concerns about this amendment, because I don't think it does what the author intends it to do. All it does is say none of the funds made available in this act--this act, not other acts, not other bills that the chair and ranking member pass in their committees--can be used for countercyclical payments to upland cotton producers. There is nothing in here about Brazil. This doesn't affect Brazil. But this does affect a lot of cotton growers in a lot of States, including the State of California, which is one of the leading cotton-producing States. If this amendment was constructive, I think you would find a lot more support for it, but I don't find it being very constructive because it only limits it to cuts in this bill and not to what the underlying problems are all about, which is covered in many other acts than this one.
