Tom Latham: “I have heard a lot from home about the problems we have in farm country, the disasters we have. I just want to say that…”

“I have heard a lot from home about the problems we have in farm country, the disasters we have. I just want to say that I think this will help a great deal to get us through an immediate crisis, but if we have a disaster, I want to state that the administration's policy has been, number one, to cut crop insurance when we have these disasters. Last year we had to fight to the mat to be able to save crop insurance. In the past 3 years they have had a billion and a half dollars available for market export programs. They finally used about $7 million of that. Today, as far as trade sanctions, the administration has put on 61 sanctions in the last 6 years compared in the last 80 years we had 120 sanctions. Forty percent of the world's population is under sanctions from this administration today which cuts off any possibility of selling agricultural products. Lastly, we have got to pass this fall fast track legislation to help agriculture, and I would hope the administration would finally get on board and decide to push it.”