Mark Dayton: “I believe this farm bill is a better bill for Minnesota and it is a better bill for America as a result of our efforts.…”

“I believe this farm bill is a better bill for Minnesota and it is a better bill for America as a result of our efforts. Without the chairman of the committee, Senator Harkin, we would not have accomplished any of this. His leadership has been extraordinary. I hear some of my colleagues raising objections to certain measures in this bill. In the context of what we walked into in January of 2001 when I joined the Senate and that committee and the previous conditions in the agricultural sector, there is a disconnect between what they seem to be objecting to and the circumstances that existed--which, frankly, I was not a part of--when I came on the committee in January of 2001.”