Dan Miller: “Finally, it hampers our ability to expand trade opportunities for America's farmers.”

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

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.

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

As a result, the sugar program imposes a 'sugar tax' on consumers, forcing them to pay more than $1 billion in higher prices for food and sugar every year.