On the recordApril 14, 1999
Returning to the crop insurance subject, I certainly am pleased that the Republican budget does allow $6 billion for the first 5 years of the budget cycle, but I would point out that it is a 10-year budget and there is nothing for crop insurance in the second 5 years that we have been able to identify. And if we contrast this with the budgets that were proposed by the Democrats and by the Blue Dogs there was, indeed, more adequate and consistent funding for crop insurance. I feel that if we have a 10-year budget here we have to judge it not just on the basis of the first 5 years, but the commitment to crop insurance for the second 5 years. If there is not money there for crop insurance for the second 5 years, we are in a very bad position.
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