On the recordNovember 14, 2012
Last week, the American people spoke; and I, for one, heard them loud and clear: quit arguing and get your dang work done. My suggestion is that we've got a piece that we can do today--pass the farm bill for America. America's farm economy has been one of the bright spots over the last 5 years, and our farmers and our consumers deserve some certainty. The House has already passed the farm bill through the Ag Committee with a two-thirds vote. The Senate passed a farm bill with a two-thirds majority. They couldn't agree it's Wednesday over there, yet they passed a farm bill. This bill adds certainty to rural America. It creates jobs on Main Street. It provides stable prices in the grocery stores, and it makes sure that in drought- stricken areas of our country farmers are there to produce. This is a jobs bill. It's a bipartisan bill. It's a compromise. Every major farm and nutrition group has asked for it to be done. All we need to do is to bring it to the floor and to push one of the two buttons-- ``yes'' for jobs in rural America and food for this country or ``no'' for more gridlock. I think we want the green button. ____________________
