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Robert Torricelli: “Like the Senator from West Virginia in advocacy of his small farmers, I will not allow, as long as I serve in the…”

On the recordSeptember 28, 1999
Like the Senator from West Virginia in advocacy of his small farmers, I will not allow, as long as I serve in the Senate, the State of New Jersey to be a caboose on the train of the national union. We have a farming crisis. The Appropriations Committee not only reducing but eliminating any assistance for farmers who are being bankrupt and forced from the land is inexcusable. Like the Senator from West Virginia, at the appropriate time, I will come to the floor and if it requires standing here day after day, night after night, I will not see them abandoned.
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Robert Torricelli
New Jersey

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Addressing the farming crisis and the need for assistance for farmers during Senate debate.

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