James M. Jeffords: “Also, I have letters from the Governors to all of us with respect to that. We have brought this over here. We have…”

“Also, I have letters from the Governors to all of us with respect to that. We have brought this over here. We have explained it to staffs and they agreed with us, 65 to 35. I wanted you to keep that in mind. Second, we are a negative producer. What are they afraid of? We only produce 70 percent of the milk consumed in New England. We are not a threat to anybody. Mr. President, 30 percent of our milk comes from New York and Pennsylvania. It can come from Wisconsin. It can come from Minnesota. We are not creating any barriers to anybody. We say our consumers are so desirous of making sure that our farmers are there--they love the cows on the hillsides. That is New England. It is tradition. All we are asking is to be treated as any other big State can be. New York has an order that helps protect their producers, California does, other States do. Why can we not, as six little States up in New England tucked off up in the corner there, have the ability to protect our dairy farms?”