Madam President, I am pleased to join my colleague from Pennsylvania in supporting his amendment. This is the last opportunity for a bipartisan amendment to reform sugar subsidies that are costing consumers $3.5 million a year and losing 20,000 jobs a year in this country. This amendment maintains the current sugar program but rolls back the additional subsidies that were provided for sugar in the 2008 farm bill.
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