Political Quotes

“I have heard it said on the floor a couple of times today that the Agriculture Committee is not moving this bill quickly enough. The fact is, the Agriculture Committee did not have a reconstituted committee until June 29. Following that, it did not have its full membership until July 1. Following that, the committee worked 8 days. In 8 days, the bill came out of committee. It sounds like pretty good work to me. Within 8 days we had a major piece of legislation such as this coming out of the committee. Senator Harkin and Senator Lugar did a pretty good job. I repeat: It could not move forward until the committee was reconstituted. Last year we passed a bill similar to this. The agricultural community has problems in different places every year. But they always have problems. Last year we passed a bill with $7.1 billion. It was very close to what we are trying to pass this year.”