Dawn Zimmer: “Mr. Chairman, these days it is advisable for any candidate for Federal office to know the price of eggs and bread and…”

“Mr. Chairman, these days it is advisable for any candidate for Federal office to know the price of eggs and bread and other staples at the supermarket. I would advise those Members who stop by their local supermarket to check up on those prices also to take a look at the ingredients in most of the products that they buy, or that any working family would buy. Look at catsup, cereal, bread, most processed foods. They all contain sugar. You are paying more for all those products because of this misbegotten sugar program. That is why we should phase it out. We have heard over and over again that this program is at no net cost to American taxpayers. American consumers, who are in fact American taxpayers, are paying $1.4 billion a year more at the supermarket because of this program, and the Federal Government is paying at least $90 million more per year for the sugar that it must buy. This is not a good bargain for us as American taxpayers or as American consumers because the bulk of these benefits go to a small minority of well-placed, well-connected farmers. I urge adoption of the amendment.”