Collin Peterson: “this is, as I said earlier, the exact bill that was voted on and passed by the House and the Senate. The gentleman is…”

“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 idea from the White House that was in their original farm proposal. So this is not some new program that came about in the conference committee. It was in the bill that passed the House, it was in the bill that passed the Senate, and it was in the President's bill that they proposed. In fact, this was a reform that was suggested by the White House and the administration. So you can make all kinds of outrageous assumptions and come up with outrageous charges, which has been done for some time on this bill. The idea that there is going to be anybody in this country that has $2.5 million of adjusted gross income and is going to be able to collect farm payments is complete lunacy. That is not true. And whatever people they have been able to get to score this to come up with these numbers, nobody can verify that. These are more charges that we have dealt with. This bill was filed on May 13. It has been available for everybody to read since May 13. It is exactly the same bill that has been out there all of this time. The error that was made was made by the Enrolling Clerk, not by this committee, and it is unfortunate. What we are trying to do here is fix the situation. I am not sure that we need to do what we are doing here.”