Political Quotes

“my amendment simply requires the U.S. Department of Agriculture to take action on a recently enacted farm bill conservation provision. The conservation provision is important. It is already in the farm bill. I am simply asking that they do what they are already required to do. As many of my colleagues know, the farm bill is 1,000 pages long. The Department of Agriculture just met with the Senate staff to talk about their plans to implement this mammoth bill. It is taking the Department a long time to work out the details of all the programs and provisions of this bill. The provision to which this amendment pertains requires USDA to transfer conservation funds to the Bureau of Reclamation. This amendment does not in any way change the underlying farm bill. This is in there. They are required to do it. It requires the USDA to carry out a mandatory congressional directive by a date certain so that a small provision does not get lost in a sea of larger programs and priorities.”