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Kent Conrad: I say to my colleagues, if this farm plan were to pass, the vulnerability of America would increase geometrically. This…

On the recordOctober 18, 2001
I say to my colleagues, if this farm plan were to pass, the vulnerability of America would increase geometrically. This is the most radical farm plan ever endorsed by any administration in my memory. I am 53 years old. I have followed farm policy very closely all of my life, being from a farm State. It is breathtaking what this administration has said we should put in place. It is absolutely the wrong plan at the wrong time, and we must reject it.
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Kent Conrad
Democratic · North Dakota

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Discussing concerns about a proposed farm plan and its implications for national vulnerability.

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