Dick Lugar: “The educational process for the young, as well as loans, and this important energy research. Clearly, if our country…”

“The educational process for the young, as well as loans, and this important energy research. Clearly, if our country adopted an energy policy that featured the biomass, the ethanol, or other products that come from that, we would have a different farm scene. I pray that will occur, as does the Senator. But it won't, really, without a great deal of effort on our part. These are hopeful signs for the future. I think we both agree, we don't want to bump up against the WTO ceilings because that really would jeopardize our export position. And I have offered a prudent step that takes us way back from that apparently. I have a lot of government still here: $7,000 for maybe 1.3 million entities is a lot of government but, at the same time, a level that I think will not perversely accelerate the land value, overproduction, and really finally does cost a lot less money at a time that we are in deficit finance. I appreciate the Senator's thoughtful objections to this, but I persist nonetheless and ask for support of the amendment.”