Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I probably have a little more unique position or consideration of this amendment than most Members because I am the only tobacco farmer in this House. Let me tell you what this amendment does. I am not going to get into all the money everybody else has talked about. It is telling every tobacco farmer in Kentucky today, we have had rain for the last 4 or 5 weeks, we now have the possibility of a blue mold coming in on our plants, which could very well devastate our crop as we move along from June, July, and August. We want to tell that farmer, with the Durbin amendment, we want to tell him, Mr. Farmer, you do not have any protection for that. We might be devastated. If the blue mold does not get us later in the summer, we have a disease called black shank which could. Why do I mention these two diseases? First of all, it is the extension services which go to the farmer who does not have to go to anybody else and say, Mr. Farmer, here is what you put on your tobacco plant to try to prevent blue mold, try to prevent black shank.”