Political Quotes

“there has been progress made on a farm bill. We can't leave here without doing a farm bill. I think it is something we need to do. We worked hard. We have agreed on how much money it is going to take. I had a meeting yesterday with Senator Harkin and Senator Baucus on our side. They have had good working relationships with their counterparts, Senators Grassley and Chambliss. They are working well with their House counterparts. We have had a little setback because Chairman Rangel has been hospitalized. We were hopeful that he would be out today. In fact, we had a meeting scheduled today. But he is not going to be back to work today. That has slowed us up a little bit. But we all look toward doing a farm bill. It is something we need to do, and we are going to work very hard on a bipartisan basis, which is the only way we can have a farm bill.”