Political Quotes

“that is sort of a cue to allow me to talk a little bit about how we are putting pressure on the small, traditional crop farmer in the United States. We passed my amendment to put real limits on and get rid of the loophole on a vote of 265 to 158, and we did that on April 18. At the time the House motion passed, the chairman of the Committee on Agriculture was quoted as saying, ``It will have no bearing on the conference,'' and true to his word, with the apparent consent of the Senate agriculture committee chairman, the conference report that came out yesterday keeps that loophole and bows to the interests of mammoth farms and giant grain and cotton dealers who want unlimited price supports and the resulting increased production. If we asked a grain trader such as Cargill, Archer Daniels, any of them, they tend to make their money based on the amount of product going through their system, so the more product they have, the more money they have. So these conferees were under tremendous pressure not only from the huge farmers in the megafarms, but also from the grain traders and cotton traders that have an advantage with having unlimited payments and unlimited price support.”