Collin Peterson: “We have huge regional fights within this industry, and we have an opportunity finally with this compromise to end those…”

But I just want to make clear that in my opinion what we're doing here is not a tax increase. And frankly, what we ought to be doing is investigating why we have all these people on the payroll at the State Department and at the Treasury…

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…

I've been working with the gentleman from Virginia on this issue, and I think he has some good ideas here that we have been working through, but we just aren't at the point where we're comfortable on this side at this point. If I could…

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…