Political Quotes

“let me just briefly review, or sort of give the skinny on what I see happening in the farm bill. Senator Byron Dorgan, a Democrat of North Dakota and Charles Grassley, a Republican of Iowa, were the leaders over in the Senate that said, look, for the long run, long-term good of farmers and farm programs, let us put a cap on these multimillion dollar payments that are going out to some of these huge mega-farm and landowners. They said that there is enough votes in the Senate to recommit with instructions that we go back to the original Senate language on payment limitations. However, the rules are that if the House passes a farm bill prior to the Senate having the opportunity to recommit, then the Senate no longer has that opportunity to make a motion to recommit if the House passes the bill. I suspect that that is some of the reason that our leaders in the Conference Committee on Agriculture, our chairman, our ranking member, decided to bring this up even before CBO has completed their cost estimates to file the bill, to bring the bill to a vote tomorrow.”