Sam Brownback: “I rise to speak of my support for the conference report on the farm bill. I am delighted to follow my colleague, Senator…”

“I rise to speak of my support for the conference report on the farm bill. I am delighted to follow my colleague, Senator Roberts, who supports the bill, who has served on the conference committee and has been a longtime worker and writer of farm bills. I think this is probably Senator Roberts' fifth or sixth farm bill. So I am delighted to follow in his wake here and to support the same farm bill. I wish to commend my colleagues, Senator Harkin and Senator Chambliss, for their leadership on this issue. I am proud to represent an agriculture State, along with Senator Roberts, and I am proud to represent Kansas producers and their interests here in Washington. I am proud to be here representing my dad and brother who are full-time farmers and people who both use the farm bill and swear at it from time to time as well, complaining about different of its provisions that are in the farm bill that hit them in an adverse way. Still, I think overall this is a good farm bill. I think some of the highlights of the farm bill are the expansion of ethanol and the cellulosic ethanol field.”