Tom Harkin: “I always point out to people that when you go in a restaurant, or anywhere you go to eat, the sugar is free. You get…”

“I always point out to people that when you go in a restaurant, or anywhere you go to eat, the sugar is free. You get these little packs of sugar wherever you go. You go to Starbucks, you get free sugar. You go to the airport, and you go down and get a cup of coffee, or something like that, there is free sugar. It cannot get much cheaper than that. Does anyone believe if we were to drop these sugar support prices down about 50 percent--which is what would happen with what the Senator from New Hampshire wishes to have happen--do you believe candy prices are going to go down? Do you believe food prices are going to go down? Come on. It just means that the manufacturers, the processors will just make more profits, that is all, and our nation's sugar farmers won't. So you can't get much cheaper than free when it comes to sugar when you go into your restaurants and coffee shops and places such as that. The next thing the Senator talked about is the $16 billion that the Washington Post keeps talking about in new spending because of this new program, this new option we have, this new reform program. That is a doom's day scenario.”