Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I come to the floor for the third time to express my opposition to the farm bill--obviously not in total, but to certain provisions of it, particularly provisions I had a hand in writing--and to set the record straight, once again. I come here because several of my colleagues have approached me indicating confusion on whether the payment limits provisions I fought for are in this bill or not in this bill. People are going to tell colleagues there are payment limitations in this bill, but I am here to set the record straight with facts. They don't accomplish what I tried to accomplish, and they are even much more liberal than in existing law in regard to my amendment. My original payment limit provisions included a $50,000 individual/ $100,000 married couple cap for the shallow loss programs shown as Price Loss Coverage--PLC--and the Agricultural Risk Coverage--ARC-- programs. In this bill farmers will have to pick one of those programs for the next 5 years. The conference report allows individual farmers to get $125,000 and married couples to get $250,000 from the PLC and the ARC programs. This is where this has really exploded because what I just referenced is a 150-percent increase over what my limits allowed--the limits that passed the Senate without discussion and limits adopted in the House of Representatives on a 230-to-194 vote. That is just a plain, simple fact--a 150-percent increase over what my limits allowed.…”