Dan Miller: “It devastates the environment, particularly the fragile Everglades in my home State of Florida.”

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.

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.

This legislation is good for consumers, good for the environment, good for American workers, and good for the economy.

The sugar program is the 'sugar daddy' of corporate welfare. Why? Because most of the benefits of this program go to huge corporate sugar producers, not the typical family farmer.