Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, this is an argument that we seem to go through every year, unfortunately, and I think it is too bad that we constantly attack farmers regardless of what their crop may be. This is indeed an attack on peanut farmers and the peanut economy in this country. It is not the place that we should be reforming the peanut program, on the ag appropriation bill. No hearings, no discussions, just come in here and we will slash this program. The sponsor of the bill, I think, is misinformed or uninformed when he talks about the world price of peanuts. The world price of peanuts is really not the value of peanuts. It is the value of peanuts that are dumped on the world market, a big difference, and the program that we have in effect, a no-cost program to the Federal Government, is there to protect the American peanut farmer from imports of cheap peanuts which are subsidized by the governments of those producers. My colleagues, this is not a good way to make farm policy. I suggest that we do as we have in the past, that we turn back this amendment and that we live up to our contract with America's peanut farmers.”