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Mr. Speaker, H.R. 6377 directs the CFTC to utilize all of its authority, including its emergency powers, to immediately curb the role of excessive speculation, if any, in the energy and swaps futures market within its jurisdiction, and to…
I would just take one additional small amount of time to thank my colleague and friend, Mr. Goodlatte, for the work that he did with me on this bill. As he said, this has been a bipartisan effort; had it not been, we wouldn't be here…
I have a copy of the House- passed bill, and in our bill we had a countercyclical revenue assurance program that was a national trigger, as I said earlier. This is an idea that came about from the White House, and it is not something that…
It is not a constitutional quagmire. I don't know why people bring this up, because it was clear in this 1892 court case what the situation is. The thing is, we initially asked, if I could explain, if it was possible to re-enroll the bill…
Reclaiming my time. This was done correctly. The 14 titles that were overridden yesterday were passed in an identical manner between the House and the Senate. They were vetoed by the President in that manner. The bill, once the Senate…
this is, as I said earlier, the exact bill that was voted on and passed by the House and the Senate. The gentleman is wrong. The provision that he is referring to was in both the House bill and the Senate bill, and it was also an original…
I rise to correct the record. This bill has had a long and tortuous path, and now, unfortunately, is the victim of an unintended clerical error, and I just need to set the record straight about what happened here. I notified Mr. Goodlatte…
My staff worked through this and assured me this is the exact same bill that passed the House and Senate and was sent to the President.
Again, one of the reasons that we were moving was because the extension of the current law expires Friday and we were trying to make sure we got the work done so that we could finally get this bill passed into law, after all the time that…
I ask my colleagues to listen up here because this has been a very difficult bill and there has been numerous problems that have developed every day for the last year-and-a-half. I guess it's appropriate that there would be a problem that…
I thank the gentleman. As I understand it, it was just a glitch in the printing of the document that went to the White House. They vetoed the bill missing title III and didn't recognize it. As I understand, the Constitution says that when…
a lot of people make a lot of claims about this bill. Editorial writers, most of them get the information wrong. But as has been mentioned here before, 15 percent of the bill goes to farmers; 9 percent of that goes to traditional commodity…
Mr. Speaker, it's been a long road to get to this point, and I want to start off by thanking Mr. Goodlatte, the ranking member of the committee, again for his great work; my subcommittee chairmen, who started this process off; the ranking…
I take very much issue with your saying we are waiving PAYGO. We are not waiving PAYGO. We are not waiving PAYGO in this bill. We are meeting PAYGO requirements based on the 2007 baseline which is what we started the bill under. This is…
The House bill didn't have a paid-for disaster provision in it, the Senate bill did. And so when we molded these together, we put these disaster provisions in, and we paid for them, the first time that we actually paid for a disaster with…
It has a bioenergy reserve program to allow us to learn how to grow switch grass and how to harvest it and store it and move it; woody biomass so we can get cellulosic ethanol going. We have for the first time significant money in for…
I will just say very briefly that, as I said earlier, we get kind of off on tangents here on talking about small farmers and so forth. But the effect of a lot of these different proposals on reform, the effect of them are going to be to…
these prices that everybody talks about, if you are a real farmer out there and goes to your elevator, you cannot get a contract at these prices. And if you really want to do something here on this floor that will do some good, it would be…
I can assure people of that. Apparently the issue that is before us today is one small part of that whole package. Frankly, the discussion has not really focused that much on this part of the payment limit issue. It has been more on the…
I want to rise to commend Chairman Dingell for the outstanding work that he did on this legislation. He, once again, produced a good bill that can be signed, as he always does. I also want to commend the Speaker, the rest of our…
I just want to again thank my good friend Mr. Goodlatte for his leadership on this issue and the rest of the members of our committee who have worked very hard. We've produced a farm bill that is going to do our part in getting this…
I rise today to commend the good people of Minnesota who have banded together to begin the healing process. When that bridge fell, every citizen of my State felt the grief and the pain together. It has certainly been a difficult couple of…
I recognize the gentlewoman's leadership. I think we can solve this problem with a letter to USDA. So if the gentlewoman will work with me, we will do that. I think we can get this resolved. I support you on this.
The Davis-Kirk amendment to the 2007 farm bill would erase sugar policy measures that are designed to save taxpayers funds and prevent the U.S. sugar market from being overrun with subsidized foreign sugar. The economic impact in Minnesota…
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