Collin Peterson

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 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…

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 think what people need to understand, the farmer that sold the day before Katrina got his money out of the marketplace, and what the LDP did is protect those farmers that sold later to get the same price that farmer got right before…

we had a debate similar to this not too long ago, and I'll say it again, that while we've added several billion dollars to the conservation baseline, we still have backlogs in most of those programs. And the question to me is the same: if…

I want to alert the Members of the body that this motion to recommit has the word ``promptly'' in it. What that means is if this goes back to the committee, this kills this bill. It kills the reform that we have done in this bill. It kills…

I don't believe there is a tax increase in this bill. I have looked at it. I am a CPA, and I think you can say it either way, but I don't believe it is a tax increase. The $60 billion did come out of baseline not because anybody cut it…

today we have a bill before us that is known as the farm bill, but this bill is much more than about farms. It is about the food we eat, the clothes we wear, and, increasingly, the fuel that we will use. The farm bill assures that we will…

I want to thank Ms. Kaptur for bringing up this issue. As chairman of the Agriculture Committee and representative of the largest turkey-producing industry in the United States, I share your concern and interest in making sure that we are…

This so-called reform bill, we just got the CBO score. First of all, it changes the payment limits based on the 2002 bill. So, the effect of this bill is to have no limitation on payments at all, number one. We are writing a 10-year…

Mr. Speaker, by nearly all measures, the situation in Iraq is a mess. And yet what seems crystal clear to most Minnesoteans the President says that we still have a realistic chance to achieve his vision for a free and democratic Iraq and…

Mr. Speaker, the need to move our Nation toward energy independence has never been clearer, yet this administration has stood by, leaving consumers struggling to pay their winter heating bills as oil companies continue to enjoy billions in…

So, Mr. Hastings, could you clarify for me that it is not the intent of section 207 of House Resolution 6 to prohibit a Member to use his or her own airplane; specifically, that is not intended to apply to the use of the Members'…

I rise in support of H.R. 4559. Mr. Green's bill would allow the towns of Laona and Wabeno in Wisconsin to purchase two parcels of marginal Forest Service land for development. Those towns, as was noted, suffer from low timber prices and a…

the farmland protection program is an important program that helps farmers preserve their land for the future and to combat urban sprawl. The program works with State and local groups to purchase conservation easements to ensure farmland…

I rise in support of H.R. 5103. Mr. Boucher's bill will convey about 6 acres of land within Jefferson National Forest back to the Lutheran Church to allow them to restore and preserve the historic Konnarock Lutheran Girls School in Smyth…

Well, they are hauling them to Texas because there is a processing facility. The only point I am trying to make, Mr. Chairman, is that some of these issues they are claiming they are going to solve with this bill are not going to be…

I yield myself 1 more minute. But, you know, nothing will change under this bill.

I rise today to support the Gutknecht amendment along with my fellow MN Colleagues. In January these soldiers wrote to me and every member of the MN delegation asking for help. And I believe as their representatives we have an obligation…

I do not think we have any additional speakers, and so I yield back the balance of my time.

there are many reasons to question whether or not the United States should remain in the WTO. Among them: the current trade deficit of $618 billion; the disappointing enforcement efforts of the Administration on past trade agreements; and…

in 2002 we passed a bipartisan farm bill that has been successful. In the first 3 years of the bill, we saved 40 percent below what we spent the 3 years of the last farm bill. We saved $15 billion below what was projected to be in the farm…

H.R. 10 is not the best bill that this body could produce. H.R. 10, as introduced, included a curious provision in Title V, section 5021 of the bill would give the President the authority to draft a completely new intelligence reform bill…

This authorization bill has a lot of good things in it, and I want to commend the gentleman from Florida (Chairman Goss) and the ranking member, the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Harman) and my colleagues for the work that they have put…