Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I was sorry the gentleman from New York would not yield to me. He said there was a glass of milk here from Massachusetts. Yes, there is a dairy compact from New England, which I opposed, which I think will hurt the consumers which was not in the House bill or the Senate bill. As I understand it, it shows up in the conference report. Typical. If people want to know what contempt of Congress means, it is the way the House has been treated recently on major issues, with the minimum debate the rules of the House allow. And now I can understand why they do not want to debate this. The gentleman from Mississippi talked about this program. This is the biggest welfare program we have left. It will be bigger than AFDC from the Federal dollar standpoint. What we are saying is, farmers will get welfare payments. There is a difference, however. By the way, I am not the only one who first thought of this. I must give credit where credit was due. In 1990, Richard Armey, writing in the Heritage Foundation, said 'If the goal of our farm programs is to help needy farmers, we should do so directly with welfare payments rather than with the complex and costly system of price supports. That would only cost $4 billion a year, rather than $12 billion.' Mr. ARMEY was a prophet, and that is what we are doing. We are giving to welfare to farmers because they are in need, rather than costly price supports.”