J. Exon: “I want to talk briefly about what I was surprised to see, which I term ``Tough Talk on the Farm Bill Is Doubletalk.''…”

“I want to talk briefly about what I was surprised to see, which I term ``Tough Talk on the Farm Bill Is Doubletalk.'' Mr. President, in the Friday edition of the Omaha World Herald there was a curious story. In it, Dean Kleckner of the American Farm Bureau takes to task several farm State Senators and seems to blame us for the impasse on the farm bill. He goes so far as to say, and I quote: ``I have heard some Members of Congress say that the (Freedom to Farm) bill will pass over their dead bodies. If there is no farm bill, there will be a lot of dead bodies.'' Mr. President, this is, indeed, curious and offensive hyperbole. Some of us have been encouraging a farm bill to be brought up for debate and to be acted on for a long time. But where was the Farm Bureau? They certainly were not taking that line on December 13. On that day, I received a letter from Mr. Kleckner which took just the opposite position.”