Roger Marshall: “I want to thank Mr. Kingston for all he has done on behalf of peanuts and milk. In the authorizing committee, we failed…”

“I want to thank Mr. Kingston for all he has done on behalf of peanuts and milk. In the authorizing committee, we failed to extend the peanut program storage and handling fees for the year it needed to be extended, at the end of this farm program. And we also failed to extend the milk program, that 1 month that is necessary, according to Mr. Obey and others, to establish an appropriate baseline where milk is concerned and an appropriate baseline where peanuts are concerned, peanut storage and handling. Anticipating that a point of order might be made, Mr. Chairman, and I am not sure that it would be made by the chairman of the authorizing committee or someone else, we have put together a letter to the chairman, Chairman Goodlatte, asking that he support the two bipartisan amendments made in the appropriations committee with regard to these two issues, the peanut storage and handling fees issue and the milk program issue that was spoken about by Mr. Obey. Mr. Chairman, 26 members of the 46 members of the committee have signed on. Mr. Chairman, it seems to me the real question will be whether or not somehow the Appropriations Committee is inappropriately treading on the authority of the authorizing committee. Here you have a majority of the members of the authorizing committee saying that they think that the Appropriations Committee is acting properly with regard to these two issues, and they would request that the point of order be denied.”