Political Quotes

“let me just take a moment to thank my ranking member Senator Cochran and to indicate we are in fact now officially sending back our Senate bill to the House and requesting a conference on the farm bill. This is a very important step this evening. I thank the senior Senator from North Dakota Mr. Hoeven, who has done yeoman work this evening and today, and the senior Senator from Georgia Mr. Chambliss, who has been very involved, as well as other members of the committee, for working hard to bring us to this point. As everyone knows, we have been working very hard on a bipartisan basis in the Senate. We have produced a product that is comprehensive, bipartisan, balanced; that addresses the agricultural needs and concerns of our country in a 5-year farm bill; that addresses food security and conservation of our soil and land and water; bioenergy, rural development--we could go on and on with all of the pieces of the farm bill that are so important. We also do this on behalf of the 16 million men and women in America who work hard every day in some part of agriculture and the food industry, the riskiest business in the world. Nobody else has to worry for their products or services, about whether it is going to rain or not today or be too hot or too cold. There are folks who do that every single day. Because of them we have the safest, most affordable food supply in the world.…”