Political Quotes

“The failure to include real payments limits in the farming bill, I think, is an example of entrenched special interests frustrating the will of the majority. The conferees, generally the most senior Members of the House and Senate Committee on Agriculture have chosen to ignore public sentiment and congressional sentiment in both the popular vote in both the House and the Senate in favor of serving the largest corporate farms and major grain traders. They have also slighted I think our President, President Bush, who last August noted the plight of medium-sized farms, and he promised, and I quote again the President, ``One of the things that we are going to make sure of as we restructure the farm program next year is that the money goes to the people it is meant to help.'' Limiting subsidies for any single farmer is an idea whose time has come. If we continue with unlimited government payments under the farm bill for another 6 years, we will see increasing concern among the American people as farmers with huge land holdings with a lower marginal cost of production, pocket an ever-increasing share while more small and medium-size farms go out of business.”