Bob Menendez: “a little more than 1 week ago Members of this House came to this floor and voted in favor of continuing agriculture…”

“a little more than 1 week ago Members of this House came to this floor and voted in favor of continuing agriculture subsidies to farmers making over $100,000 in off-farm income and they voted to continue millions of dollars in market promotion subsidies for companies like McDonald's and Pillsbury. Yet this week, many of these same Members will come to the floor to speak and vote in favor of $4.5 billion in cuts to education programs like student aid and safe and drug free schools. How will they justify it? They will say, ``we must make sacrifices to balance the budget'', ``for our children'' they will say, ``for our children''. But McDonald's will continue to receive $1.2 million in market subsidies and a farmer making over $100,000 annually in off-farm income will get a $500-per-child tax break for his two children and continue to receive farm payments from the Federal Government. Apparently only your child and mine need to make sacrifices, not farmers nor big business.”