Thomas Ewing said "Mr. Chairman, the intent of the Miller-Schumer amendment is to kill an efficient U.S. sugar industry and send those jobs overseas. The sugar program was reformed in the 1996 farm bill. The sugar program retained only protection at the border from the other hundred countries in this world who produce sugar and want the American market to dump their sugar on. It would only hurt those people in the sugar industry and raise costs to the consumer if we were to adopt this amendment. There are more changes coming in the sugar program. The sugar program must move with the changes in the GATT agreement, and I support that, and most people in this body do for bringing the sugar program into competition in world market. We cannot change alone. We cannot tie one hand behind us and expect the rest of the world to respect our program." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordJuly 24, 1997

Mr. Chairman, the intent of the Miller-Schumer amendment is to kill an efficient U.S. sugar industry and send those jobs overseas. The sugar program was reformed in the 1996 farm bill. The sugar program retained only protection at the border from the other hundred countries in this world who produce sugar and want the American market to dump their sugar on. It would only hurt those people in the sugar industry and raise costs to the consumer if we were to adopt this amendment. There are more changes coming in the sugar program. The sugar program must move with the changes in the GATT agreement, and I support that, and most people in this body do for bringing the sugar program into competition in world market. We cannot change alone. We cannot tie one hand behind us and expect the rest of the world to respect our program.

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Thomas Ewing

Republican · Illinois

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the impact of the Miller-Schumer amendment on the U.S. sugar industry.

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