Debbie Stabenow: “Thank you for paying it forward on behalf of many people that are not able to be here today”

The current farm bill expires at the end of December. So we have to do something before we leave in December.

We have a very strong bench in Michigan.

Yes. Now, we could pass an extension again and throw this into the lap of everyone next year. That doesn't create any more certainty for farmers. Those who want to just do some ad hoc payments, you know, that is not going to work. And so…

Well, if we do nothing, then a number of programs revert to what is called a Depression-era policy, and there is something called the dairy cliff that everybody is always worried about because it goes back to a pricing structure that would…