Tom Harkin: “Secondly, Madam President, I learned this morning of a poll that had been taken, and the poll has just been released. I…”

“Secondly, Madam President, I learned this morning of a poll that had been taken, and the poll has just been released. I believe it was released at 2:30 this afternoon, so the paper is still hot, just off the press. It is quite a startling poll when you look at the results. I am going to talk about that. The poll was prepared by Rockwood Research, a subsidiary of Farm Journal, Inc. It was prepared for the Nebraska Wheat Growers Association, the American Corn Growers Association, and the Nebraska Farmers Union. I just want to say what the method was here. The method was that representative data was drawn from 1,000 wheat and corn growers throughout the United States. They have here a table of how many were contacted in each State. For example, in the State of Illinois, 55 corn growers and 33 wheat growers, for a total of 88, were contacted; in Idaho, 1 corn grower, 12 wheat growers, a total of 13; in Iowa, 72 corn growers, no wheat growers; in Kansas, 9 corn growers, 72 wheat growers, et cetera. All over the United States, from every State, from Alabama to Wyoming, farmers were contacted on this poll--500 corn growers and 500 wheat growers, calls made randomly. I will not go through all the questions, but I would like to highlight just a couple. Question No. 7: "Congress should modify the current farm program?" Yes or no. Seventy-six point nine percent said yes, 17.7 percent said no.”