Political Quotes

“I stand as an urban member, someone who represents Brooklyn and Queens, the garden spot of the five boroughs perhaps, but not exactly a bastion of agriculture. But I am someone who strongly supports farm bills when they are offered. I have never voted against one and plan to vote for this one with enthusiasm. But just as during the 1980s and a period thereafter, as we have sought to make government programs more efficient and many social and urban programs were made more efficient by the actions of this body, we have an opportunity today to end what is quite literally a fleecing of America. The wool and mohair program, which will cost in the area of some $20 million to the United States taxpayer next year, is a program that has been ended by this body and now revived by the President with the assistance of this bill. My amendment seeks to eliminate the subsidy.”