To build upon what the Senator just said, I placed in the Record the other day the farm welfare program, the so-called Freedom to Farm Act. It would provide a massive amount, thousands of dollars a year, to a farmer whether or not the farmer even planted, on one hand, and he would get the same amount of thousands of dollars--I figured out that a typical farm of 500 acres, a corn farmer, at $3.10 a bushel, under the Freedom to Farm Act, even though that farmer at 500 acres, 120 bushels return, which is somewhere near normal----
J. Exon: “To build upon what the Senator just said, I placed in the Record the other day the farm welfare program, the so-called…”
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Discussing the implications of the Freedom to Farm Act during a Senate floor debate.
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