Byron Dorgan: “This is the right subject and the right time; we are debating the right issues. The Senator said it well. We have an…”

“This is the right subject and the right time; we are debating the right issues. The Senator said it well. We have an economy that is growing and prospering, more people are working, fewer people are unemployed, fewer people on welfare, inflation is down. So many good things are going on in this country, but in rural America family farmers are in desperate trouble through no fault of their own. If any group of Americans found their income had collapsed, or if the salary for Members of Congress had fallen where income for family farmers had fallen, we would have dealt with this immediately and a long time ago. The same is true with corporate earnings. However, we are here through no fault of the family farmers but because they are trying to do business in a marketplace where prices have just collapsed. If we don't take action soon, we won't have many family farmers left across the bread basket of the country.”