Collin Peterson: “I can assure people of that. Apparently the issue that is before us today is one small part of that whole package.…”

“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 AGI issue. But just so folks understand what happened here, we in our bill that passed the House made the most significant reform in this area that has been made in a long time, and that is to get rid of the triple entity rule and to require direct attribution. If you had told people 2 years ago that you were going to accomplish that, they would have thought you were crazy. So we did that in our bill. We are going to do that in the conference report. The reality of how this all works, with the limits, the internal limits that we have in the House-passed bill, $60,000 on direct payments, $65,000 on countercyclical, it keeps the direct payment level for folks that had a triple entity at the same amount that it is under the previous system.”