Angie Craig: “I must say, I am extremely pleased the Republican leader came to the floor this morning and propounded this amendment to…”

“I must say, I am extremely pleased the Republican leader came to the floor this morning and propounded this amendment to stop what I have watched over the last week--at best, journalistic silliness and a tremendous effort to distort what are, in fact, facts and realities as it relates to certain processes that have gone on and are still going on at the Department of Agriculture. When I read headlines in the New York Times that suggest--and they did--``Let Them Eat Poison, Republicans Block a Plan That Would Save Lives,'' I say that is in fact a knowledgeable and outright distortion of the facts as we know them and certainly as this Senator knows them. So, for the next few moments I would like to relate to you some unique experiences I have had serving on the Senate Agriculture Committee that have dealt directly with the issue of the E. coli bacteria and what this Congress and this administration has attempted to do and, in some instances, has failed to do.”