Willie Hefner: “let us get right to the crux of this thing. This has nothing to do with crop insurance. It has to do with politics, and…”

“let us get right to the crux of this thing. This has nothing to do with crop insurance. It has to do with politics, and it may be good politics, because you can make food stamps for aliens seem so vicious and so ugly. I would imagine the press releases are already out for those that are speaking against this, that the press releases will go out: So and so voted to kill crop insurance so you can get food stamps for aliens. It will not say ``legal aliens''; it will just say ``aliens,'' and it will make it sound so ugly and so vicious. This is about politics. This is not about a conference report. The Committee on Rules is the Speaker's committee. It is now, it has always been, and they do what the Speaker asks them to do. This is about politics. It has nothing, nothing, nothing to do with all the good things that are in this bill. It is strictly politics. The press releases are already written and ready to go out.”