Dan Miller: “As a result, the sugar program imposes a 'sugar tax' on consumers, forcing them to pay more than $1 billion in higher…”

It devastates the environment, particularly the fragile Everglades in my home State of Florida.

I rise in support of this amendment. Mr. Chairman, at the beginning of the reauthorization process last year, there was a bipartisan effort to target scarce Federal dollars on title I and other programs focusing on broad national education…

The sugar program's sole purpose is to prop up the price of sugar in the United States through a complex system of low-interest, nonrecourse loans and tight import restrictions.

The sugar program is an archaic, unnecessary government handout to corporate sugar producers at the expense of consumers, workers, and the environment.