Political Quotes

“I would like to call to my colleagues' attention to a meeting I had yesterday with Senator Grassley. We talked about the fact that there is no limitation on payments in the farm bill. We talked about the danger and the inappropriate farm policy, the inappropriate public policy for this Congress to give most of the farm support benefits to a very small percentage of the farmers. We are now, because there is no real limit on those price subsidy payments, giving millions of dollars of payments to the very biggest farmers. I think it is going to be bad for farmers in the long run, and what we are doing is we are giving larger advantage to those great superfarms at the sacrifice of the traditional family farms. Work with us as we look for ways in the appropriation bills or elsewhere to have some kind of limit on farm payments so that we bring back and support what should be in farm policy, and that is supporting the traditional family farm.”