Political Quotes

“I take issue with their numbers. However, I will not take issue with the recommendation made from the chairman of the Committee on Agriculture. We need to complete some sort of a comprehensive study of rural areas and the impact that CRP, specifically this program, has had on rural communities, when you take good land out of production or you pay the same for highly erodable land and highly productive land. I think we can work on some language. We would like to see what happened. Maybe they will put some little fellow somewhere to work, give him a job for the next 2 or 3 months and maybe we can come back and change some of this. It defies common sense. They say that is about all the sense I have-- pretty common--but it defies common sense that this would have an impact on the budget or outlays of money when we talk about the enrollment of acres into a conservation program, designed for a good reason, but that has gone astray. We are trying to fix that. That is all we are trying to do.”