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Tom Harkin: “I asked him, ``Given those two options, which would you prefer? Which would the Farm Bureau be for?'' He said they would…”

On the recordJanuary 26, 1996
I asked him, ``Given those two options, which would you prefer? Which would the Farm Bureau be for?'' He said they would prefer the Clinton budget. Now it seems like there is another big turnaround where they want this so-called freedom to farm bill, which, as the Senator said, is really the farm welfare bill. I do not know how anyone could ask us to pass a bill that would give a Government check to a farmer when prices were extremely high in the marketplace. But that is what they are asking for. It is a siren song for farmers. If they buy into that, in a few years there will not be any farm program or any farm bill at all to protect them when prices are low.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa
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Discussing budget cuts to agriculture and the implications of the freedom to farm bill.

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