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Daniel Glickman: “I would like to ask the gentleman, what he is saying is, he cut out all farm programs affecting wheat, corn, rice…”

On the recordMarch 10, 1994
I would like to ask the gentleman, what he is saying is, he cut out all farm programs affecting wheat, corn, rice, cotton, tobacco, everything. For whatever reason, we leave dairy alone in this program, and the dairy program also on occasion costs the Government some money. I support it, but I do not understand, for the life of me, why the gentleman wants to say to the wheat farmer, the corn farmer, the rice farmer, the cotton farmer and all of the other farmers in the country that they are going to suffer. And by the way, they are in bleak economic times, as it is. The removal of these programs will probably throw thousands of farmers, if not ten of thousands, into bankruptcy. But the gentleman leaves the dairy farmer alone.
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Daniel Glickman
Democratic · Kansas
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the impact of proposed cuts to farm programs on various agricultural sectors.

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