Nancy L. Johnson: “If I were not such a civilized soul, I would have objected to this agreement. I have been in and out of this Chamber all…”

“If I were not such a civilized soul, I would have objected to this agreement. I have been in and out of this Chamber all afternoon waiting a chance to speak and I have 5 minutes' worth to say. Now I have my 2 minutes to say it in. I just want all of my colleagues to know that the Committee on Agriculture did not hold a single hearing in New England; that its membership does not include any of us; that my friend, the gentleman from Kansas (Mr. Moran), could have made exactly the speech he made word for word and had the final sentence say, and that is why I support the amendment. My colleagues do not understand. Members want a farm subsidy program for their farmers. Members want it to be countercyclical. The compact is countercyclical, and it does control production, and get Members will not even give us a chance to do for our farmers what they so desperately want to do for their farmers. It will cost a million dollars a farm for the ten biggest farms in Connecticut and sizable dollars for every farm.”