On the recordJuly 11, 2013
Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman for yielding to me and for the work that he has done to pull together this bill over these last 2 years. There is much that I'm hearing on this floor so far in this debate that I do not disagree with. There is much that I do agree with. The numbers are this: 62 ``no'' votes on the Republican side and 24 ``yes'' votes on the Democrat side. I said for weeks we should go to both sides and pull together 218. I appreciate the effort to do that. I appreciate the honor that has been brought to this process by the chairman, Mr. Lucas, and others that we work with. We are down to this now: we are down to this is our choice for this bill which can provide 5 years of predictability for agriculture and an uncertain bill that might come before us on nutrition, which I think ends up without what I want, which is reform of SNAP. I am going to support this bill, I urge my colleagues to do the same, and I would like to back this train up, if we could, and do it over. We can't, so I'm going to be for moving forward.
