Nick Smith said "There are a lot of things good about this bill. Farmers need some help; but there are some bad things about this bill. One is the fact that there is a loophole where farmers, where the huge farmers, the megafarms, can receive millions of dollars in price support payments every year. The Senate put in the provision to include generic certificates as part of the total price support limit that any farmer can have. We have a couple of States where many farmers exceed the limit and the lobbying has been tremendous. I have been receiving hundreds of calls saying we understand you are killing the farm bill, and then I explain to them what the motion to recommit does, and then they say, is that all it does. The only way this is going to kill the farm bill is if the chairman and the ranking member decide to take this back to committee and kill it themselves." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordMay 2, 2002

There are a lot of things good about this bill. Farmers need some help; but there are some bad things about this bill. One is the fact that there is a loophole where farmers, where the huge farmers, the megafarms, can receive millions of dollars in price support payments every year. The Senate put in the provision to include generic certificates as part of the total price support limit that any farmer can have. We have a couple of States where many farmers exceed the limit and the lobbying has been tremendous. I have been receiving hundreds of calls saying we understand you are killing the farm bill, and then I explain to them what the motion to recommit does, and then they say, is that all it does. The only way this is going to kill the farm bill is if the chairman and the ranking member decide to take this back to committee and kill it themselves.

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Nick Smith

Republican · Michigan

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing concerns about a farm bill and the implications of a motion to recommit.

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