Political Quotes

“Thank you so much. And thank you, Senator Klobuchar, for your current leadership and future leadership on the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. You know, I would say that, at any other time, putting forward a bill would be a starting point, and that then we would negotiate and work together, which I have been trying to do for 2 years. We put something out in May. We have been working and negotiating, but, now, here we are. And so the bill is more like the end, not the beginning. It is like: This we could pass, 100 different provisions that are bipartisan--and more than that. There are a lot of titles. There are 12 titles of the farm bill, as you know, and a number of them we have negotiated. That is what is so frustrating. We have a number of those where we have a lot of agreement. There has been a lot of good work that has come together. But in this one area, in terms of who gets the bulk of the resources, where they go--do we continue to honor what we did on conservation as it relates to climate, which is hitting farmers over the head? And do we try to pay for what farmers need? And I agree. I agree on what they need. But do we then say to the mom who is getting $6 a day: You are going to pay for that. And that is when I go: No. And I know you feel the same way--that we have never said that. We have never said that. We have always said the resources in nutrition stay in the nutrition title.…”