Political Quotes

“This bill cuts direct payments. We should not do that. That's green box, and that helps us stay in compliance with WTO. It cuts a blenders' credit on ethanol. We should not do that, because that slows capital investment into ethanol production from corn. It requires Davis-Bacon wage scales, which will reduce the numbers of ethanol plants we can build from five with the same money down to four. It imposes union scale in the countryside. We should not do that. It has in it Pigford farms, which the gentleman spoke to, that's ripe with fraud. I will prove that over the months as it unfolds. The other side of this coin is--you have to ask and answer this question--how does this bill get better if it fails here on the floor of this Congress? What comes out of the House and the Senate in a better configuration? Does it get better or does it get worse? If you can paint a scenario by which it gets better, then you vote ``no.'' If you paint a scenario by which it gets worse, you vote ``yes.''”