Political Quotes

“I want to compliment both the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Combest) and the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Stenholm) for doing a wonderful job in working this piece of legislation. As a Member of the committee these last four terms and working on two farm bills, I have to say I felt the collegiality and productivity of the committee in this 10-year reauthorization has been something we can all be very proud about. Like anything that we deal with that is this large and covering this expansive an area, there will be areas of concern. I first want to compliment the conservation title in the manager's amendment. I want to compliment the nutrition and WIC provisions that are here. I want to compliment the export enhancement and market assessment programs, research, the monies that are going to be available for colleges and university and land grant facilities, and especially improving fruits and vegetables and specialty crops. The areas of concern for me are the dairy and the dairy compact issues that we are unable to address, recognizing that it was not necessarily the jurisdiction of our committee, but also recognizing it is pretty hard to separate agriculture and dairy from each other in terms of the procedural issues that lie before both committees.”