Saxby Chambliss: “Ever since I have been here, for the last 6 years, one of my passions has been to try to reform our crop insurance…”

“Ever since I have been here, for the last 6 years, one of my passions has been to try to reform our crop insurance program. We know, coming from ag country, that the current crop insurance program we have is a disaster. Well, last year in this House, we passed a historic crop insurance reform package. I am told that tomorrow the Senate takes up their crop insurance reform package, and we are going to be going to conference very quickly. The really good thing about this budget is that last year we put some $6 billion into our budget for crop insurance reform. This year, over the next 5 years, we plussed that up to $7.4 billion. So we are going to be able to provide our farmers with a real risk management tool that is going to take the decision out of the hands of the government when it comes to crop insurance and put that decision into our farmers' hands finally and will allow our folks to manage their own crop insurance and give them the flexibility of deciding what they are going to insure and how they are going to insure it, the same way they insure their car and their home.”