Saxby Chambliss: “we are constantly coming to the floor or going into committees and talking about the fact that when it comes to the…”

“we are constantly coming to the floor or going into committees and talking about the fact that when it comes to the complicated programs we deal with, it is critically important that Members, as well as our staffs, think outside the box and come up with new ideas, new concepts that make sense, where we can take bureaucratic programs and streamline them, make them better, make them easier, make them more, in this case, farmer friendly. For that reason I compliment the Senator from Alabama. I think he has come up with an excellent idea. It has the potential for providing something similar to an idea that was prevalent in the House several years ago that was proposed by a Congressman from Kansas, Kenny Hulshof, and that was to create farm savings accounts that the farmer could use to take excess money in good years and put it, tax-free, into a savings account and save it for a time down the road where he knows he was going to have a tough year and he would have that money available. That is exactly something along the lines of what Senator Sessions is talking about. I do think it is a great concept. The problem I have with the amendment right now is that we have had no hearings on it in the committee, and we are not sure of whether it can even be implemented as a part of this particular farm bill in conjunction with the crop insurance provisions that are in our bill.”