Sanford Bishop: “Shifting services from public to private contractors shifts the incentives and it eliminates program expertise.”

Our farmers want action this year, not next. Our business community wants action now, this year.

I thank the gentleman from Georgia, my friend and my colleague, for his comments, and I thank him for joining with me in organizing today's bipartisan Special Order hour in honor of First Lady Rosalynn Carter. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the…

Let's stop playing politics, and just face reality, and let us move ahead as we should.

Government subsidies, again, always controversial, but in both of your written testimonies, you potentially suggested farmers are going to need some kind of economic assistance.