Dan Miller: “The Sugar Program Reform Act will do what the 1996 farm bill failed to accomplish.”

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.

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

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