Dan Miller: “The sugar program's sole purpose is to prop up the price of sugar in the United States through a complex system of…”

Finally, it hampers our ability to expand trade opportunities for America's farmers.

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

The Sugar Program Reform Act will do what the 1996 farm bill failed to accomplish.

Today myself, Representative George Miller and more than 40 of our colleagues are introducing the Sugar Program Reform Act, a bill to phase out the sugar program by the end of 2002.