Robert Torricelli: “there is no one in this Chamber who likes to have to maintain Government programs that restrict supply or prices. That…”

“there is no one in this Chamber who likes to have to maintain Government programs that restrict supply or prices. That is not how we would like the world to be. But it is time to recognize that the United States is not writing all the rules. We can do away with this program and we can also do away with the thousands of jobs that are maintained because of it. And we can open up the floodgates and instead of those jobs by Americans producing this sugar, it will come from around the world. We have the most efficient sugar industry in the world, but we cannot legislate in this Chamber French subsidies or Dominican subsidies or Philippine subsidies. We simply have the right for unilateral surrender of our own industry. Finally, my colleagues, while I represent no sugar industry, I do come to this House with the voice of American foreign policy and I tell my colleagues this: End this program and start the Unite States being the world's largest importer of sugar. We will drive up the world price, and it will got to a lot of other countries. We will lose the jobs and the money and Fidel Castro's Cuba will reap the benefits by rising in price.”