I would note, as the gentleman from California [Mr. Dooley] said, a winery may be called a small business but 90 percent of the grapes grown by farmers move through the five largest wineries. So the gentleman is not helping the grower if he makes this distinction. He is trying to do something that is a worthy cause, but he is missing by a mile.
Discussing the impact of winery size on grape growers during a debate.
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There may be another approach taken, if the gentlewoman will yield further, that I have not mentioned but still a way in which these growers would not be discriminated against vis-a-vis other agricultural producers?
Now, Mr. Chairman, if the gentleman will continue to yield, as I remember the gentleman's comments from that earlier debate, he was also talking about people who were taxpayers, as many legal residents are, who are not citizens.
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