On the recordFebruary 18, 2011
I rise reluctantly because Mr. Kingston and myself, I think, have a great deal of respect for how we ought to be managing the future of payments, and I concur with his remarks. But I am rising in favor of the amendment because I think we have to push the attention to how vital it is that we reform this program, and I don't think you get that attention without bringing this amendment to the floor and passing it. It's going to be hard to implement in the next remaining months, as so many of the amendments that we've adopted here in the last 3 days, but I do think that it is worth the debate of how we focus on the rest of the year. Because, frankly, we ought not to be just paying entities in this country hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars because they didn't get the price they wanted at the market. I represent the biggest growing area, and we don't get any of these payments. Not a single farmer. These are just a few entities, and it's wrong. So we ought to adopt the amendment.
