Sara Jacobs: “we heard a moment ago one of our colleagues say that the purpose of the bill is to keep small farmers in the peanut…”

“we heard a moment ago one of our colleagues say that the purpose of the bill is to keep small farmers in the peanut business. Let us be more accurate. It is to keep some small farmers in the peanut business. If Fidel Castro issued an edict that certain Cubans could not grow peanuts for human consumption, then that would be that much more grist on the mill of my good friend and colleague from Indiana for his legislation. He would call that a dictatorship. But that is exactly what the U.S. Government does. I can grow the best peanuts on earth, I can invent an entirely new approach to peanuts. That would not make any difference. I could not sell them on the market unless I had permission from my large sibling in Washington. That is what this really comes down to. When it comes to peanuts in this country, it is a government of the peanut cartel, by the peanut cartel and against the people, and it ought not be tolerated in a free society. I urge support of this amendment.”