Jeff Miller: “The Miller-Miller amendment is just a modest change in the sugar program. We are not trying to eliminate it like we…”

“The Miller-Miller amendment is just a modest change in the sugar program. We are not trying to eliminate it like we debated back in 1996, and that is really what I wish we would eliminate, but we are only talking about a one-penny change, dropping the price by about 5 percent. Now, I have my colleagues talk about, oh, the consumers do not ever gain from this, and I keep referring to this GAO report. Let us also look at all the organizations that support the Miller-Miller amendment. What consumer agreement supports the sugar program? None. The Consumer Federation of America supports the amendment. The Consumers for World Trade support the Miller-Miller amendment, and Consumers Union supports the Miller-Miller amendment. They support it because the consumers are the one that get the bad deal off the sugar program. Let me also talk about some of the other organizations, and many of them are going to be rating this vote, that is, scoring it and saying how important the vote is to them.”