Political Quotes

“I was just handed a chart that shows how much money comparatively is being spent on export or market promotion by the European Union as compared with how much we are spending in the United States of taxpayer funds for the same purpose. This big colored part of the chart here is how much is spent by the European Union, and it is $10.11 billion. This is this year. You cannot see anything on the other side except white, but if you look very, very carefully, you can see just a little bit of a line here and it is $0.15 billion. And the Senator is trying to cut that further. Now, think about it. The European Union is spending more money promoting the sale of wine than we are spending as a nation in our Federal programs on all of our United States-produced commodities and foodstuffs that are being sold in the overseas markets. This program is available only to trade associations, cooperatives and small businesses. Now, this is getting ridiculous. We have changed this program every time it has come up, or changes have been attempted every time it has come up. It has been reformed and modified and refocused.”