Tom Harkin actually said...

"Our commodity programs are often criticized and seldom praised by those who have neither worked in a field nor whose livelihood depends on the weather."

"But to have the administration, the current administration come up with rules that have nothing to do with what our intent was is extremely frustrating."

"I just don't think, again, that we should lose sight of the fact that our farmers and ranchers do produce the food and fiber that now we desperately need worldwide."

"I don't want the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times preaching to me anymore about the modest assistance that we provide to our farmers in America."