Michelle Wu: “The rarest of all beasts came to this floor completely undecided on this bill. I submitted a bill in the last Congress…”

“The rarest of all beasts came to this floor completely undecided on this bill. I submitted a bill in the last Congress to completely eliminate price supports for sugar, but after careful consideration about this, well, I think of two kids, my son who goes into the store and always asks for candy. A Mars bar costs 75 cents in the District of Columbia. It costs 50 cents in Oregon. A 5-pound bag of sugar costs $2.19 here in the District and $2.25 back home in Oregon. I just do not think that those savings will be passed on to my son. I guess I just think of these little kids I have seen in Fiji working in those cane fields and they are never going to have a chance to have a better life unless we have a viable sugar industry here in America.”