Political Quotes

“1 year ago today, just before going out on Memorial Day recess, we failed to pass the disaster bill. My colleagues forced me to go back to the people of Grand Forks, North Dakota, and tell them that Congress politically was unable to respond to a situation that desperately needed responding to. Here we are again doing exactly the same thing. We have a disaster in rural America. We have got farmers in a world of hurt in the area I represent and all over the country, and we are about to go out on Memorial Day recess without having passed this vital bill, this vital bill that makes a commitment for ag research, so desperately needed in the future, and a commitment to crop insurance, which is so desperately needed to help farmers stay in the business of farming. Do we just want to come right out and end family farming? Why do we not just have a vote to end family farming? We could just as well for the way this body is dealing with this situation. Have we learned absolutely nothing from the disastrous debacle that so disgraced this body 1 year ago? We need to pass this bill today. And the only way we do it is by passing the conference report. I urge rejection of the amendment.”