Political Quotes

“I am somewhat confused between crop insurance and rural utilities. I would have thought if the gentleman really wanted to fund this, he would have cut crop insurance for corn and soybeans, corn and soybeans in the gentleman's district. Then we would have probably all come to the floor and discussed that. I do not see the connection between taking crop insurance from one crop and not from another. It is about small farmers. The debate here is totally off what we are talking about, what this amendment does. This amendment takes from the Crop Insurance Program and puts it into another area; maybe a very deserving area, but one the Committee on Appropriations has already decided has been adequately funded. Now we are going to take it away. Mr. Chairman, I believe that a lot of this is very self-serving and political. The debate is not about tobacco. Yes, it is about small farmers that will be hurt, in this case, tobacco farmers; not corn and soybean farmers, tobacco farmers, because that is who the amendment is aimed at.”