Sam Farr: “No, I will not yield; and I want to say why. In law, you learn an old adage that says, in order to get equity, you have…”

“No, I will not yield; and I want to say why. In law, you learn an old adage that says, in order to get equity, you have got to show equity. The other night we were on the floor with a bunch of amendments, and the amendment was debated, and it was accepted by the chairwoman. And then we went on and debated with motions to adjourn, motions to rise for a number of hours. The gentleman who offered the original amendment that was adopted also had 11 other amendments. This is a $100 billion operation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, $100 billion. His amendments were to cut $50,000, another amendment for $60,000, another amendment for $7,000, another amendment for $39,000. And it went on. The list went on and on. He could have put all of those into one amendment. It still wouldn't have even matched $1 million. So the point is that these were all dilatory amendments to just try to delay the time; and I think that equity was not shown, partnership was not shown, bipartisanship was not shown. And that is why we have a rule that is fair, allows these amendments, 12 more, to be debated, and the self-executing rule did self-execute some Republican amendments as well. I urge the adoption of this rule.”