Political Quotes

“I offer this second-degree amendment to the Sanders amendment to make an improvement and remove one of the concerns that had originally arisen with his proposal. In the Sanders amendment as written, benefits are limited to 230,000 pounds of milk per month. That number really does not reflect the needs of all regions of the country, including my region in the South. Raising that amount to 500,000 pounds per month, which my second-degree amendment does, that would encompass and involve about a 300-cow farm, and would make dairy producers in many regions of the country, including the South, more comfortable with the gentleman from Vermont's underlying amendment. With this new 500,000 pound limit, most of the dairy farmers in Louisiana and many other regions would be properly included. In offering this second-degree amendment, I want to thank the gentleman from Vermont for offering his proposals. Admittedly this is a work in progress. It was only really largely developed and brought out to other Members in the last few days, but it clearly has a lot of potential. It is not everything the compact would offer to many dairy producers, including those in the South, but it is a very good work in progress that I would like to constructively support tonight, so that hopefully we can continue to perfect it as it moves along in the process.”