Byron Dorgan: “But whatever is left is certainly more than exists in the farm crisis package that has been offered today by my…”

“But whatever is left is certainly more than exists in the farm crisis package that has been offered today by my colleague. I hope that our colleagues will look at this in the spirit in which it is offered and believe that a compromise is important and necessary and believe it is far better during a farm crisis to try to extend the helping hand to people who are producing and provide help, because prices have collapsed for that which they have produced, than it is to concoct another approach that says: Let's just send checks out there and hope some of them get in the right mailboxes. That is what AMTA is and what it does. That is why it is not effective.”