First of all, I compliment the gentleman from New York. He at least comes up with something that makes real proposals. I disagree with most of them, but there is at least some intellectual honesty in here. The problem with his proposals is that it will throw, just this one piece of it, vast portions of rural America into cataclysm. With no advanced warning the gentleman is removing the entire safety net that the government provides for crops in this country, and that will produce a great deal of havoc for the people who rely on food and fiber in America, and for that reason alone I would ask Members to vote against the amendment.
Daniel Glickman: “First of all, I compliment the gentleman from New York. He at least comes up with something that makes real proposals. I…”
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