Judd Gregg: “I certainly appreciate the eloquence and the aggressiveness and obviously the effectiveness of the Senator from North…”

“I certainly appreciate the eloquence and the aggressiveness and obviously the effectiveness of the Senator from North Dakota and the Senator from Idaho in defending the sugar program as it impacts their sugar beet growers who, in most instances, I suspect--I suspect in all instances--are very hard working, farm community votes. However, the sugar program itself is structured in a way that it benefits a lot of major corporate farm activity, and that farm activity, as I mentioned before, is extraordinarily expensive to the American consumer in an unfair and unjust and unmarket-oriented way. The argument on the other side appears to have fallen into a few categories. Let me try to respond to them in some sort of argument. The first argument is that this amendment would eliminate the program because any processor doing more than $10 million in business would be out of the program. No, that is not true. I think that is simply not true. It would say that any processor who generates more than $10 million in annual sales would have to pay their loans back--just like a student, just like a veteran, just like a homeowner.”