Dick Lugar: “I was startled by the headline of the editorial, which is: ``A Piggy Farm Bill''. It says: The Farm bill that Democratic…”

“I was startled by the headline of the editorial, which is: ``A Piggy Farm Bill''. It says: The Farm bill that Democratic leaders--Majority Leader Tom Daschle, Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom Harkin--are trying to push through the Senate before Congress adjourns for the holidays is obscene. Those are very strong words to describe legislation we are now discussing. It would institutionalize the insupportable excesses of the past few years, in which billions of dollars in supposedly emergency payments have regularly been made to some of the nation's largest and least-needy producers.”