On the recordJuly 31, 2001
It is the loss of dairy farms, and we are not doing in our region what other States did and by right we are entitled to do. When their farms and products were in trouble, they asked for Federal appropriations. We asked for no appropriation. We asked for the right for a fair price for our dairy farmers. When I began my remarks, I quoted the remarks of the Senator from New York in the caucus that there is a $17 billion appropriations bill and our entire region of the country is getting $200 million in appropriations. In the next couple days, when we object to the bill and Senators ask how can you jeopardize this entire legislation for the whole country, recognize this is what matters for us, and it may be all that is in the bill that matters, and that is why we are going to take a stand here and do what is required across the region, across the South to ensure these few remaining farms can survive.
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