Tom Latham: “I spoke the other evening on this subject, and there is a lot been made about the WIC program and caring for women…”

“I spoke the other evening on this subject, and there is a lot been made about the WIC program and caring for women, infants and children. There is plenty of money already in the bill for that, more than what is needed as far as the carryover. But I think one thing that is being very much forgotten here is the women, infants and children of farm families that they are going to destroy by taking away an opportunity for them to protect the risks that they have out there. Mr. Chairman, when we look at the hope and dream of a small family farm which is made up, by the way, of women, infants and children, they would rather have them apparently go on the welfare rolls than they would to survive in their businesses. All we are asking for is the opportunity for these people, these small farm families, to protect their risk so that they do not have to get on a Government program, so that we do not have to have disaster bills which cost us billions of dollars every year. If my colleagues want to think about women, infants and children, why do they not think about those on family farms?”