Harold Volkmer: “as one who has been here for 19 years and been through different farm bills, I can remember when we had another…”

“as one who has been here for 19 years and been through different farm bills, I can remember when we had another President by the name of Reagan and a Secretary of Agriculture by the name of John Block. I wanted to let the gentleman from Oklahoma know, he may have been in grade school or high school at the time, but the gentleman from Kansas would remember, because he was here. What you have is a Reagan proposal for agriculture from back in the eighties. You take the target price and, over 5 years, you phase it down with existing programs, to where at the end of the 5 years you only had the loan rate. That is what you have. I just heard the gentleman from Oklahoma tell me how crazy it was. I am glad to hear that. I said so at the time and we did not do it. Now I am caught between. I cannot agree with the gentleman from Oklahoma, but I sure as heck cannot agree with the gentleman from Kansas with what he has. His is strictly welfare.”