Tom Coburn: “I thank the Senator. I reclaim the floor. Let me talk again about some of the problems that are behind the bill as it is…”

“I thank the Senator. I reclaim the floor. Let me talk again about some of the problems that are behind the bill as it is presently written. We are never going to have a crop insurance program in this country that will ever work if we keep bailing people out who fail to buy crop insurance. Granted, there is a change in this bill from what it was. It was 35 percent or 40 percent available to those who didn't buy crop insurance. Now we have cut it to 20. But we are still sending a signal that you don't have to buy crop insurance, because even if you do not, we are going to be there with the money. That is exactly the wrong signal. If we want to have a crop insurance program to work, we have to have the discipline to say if you choose not to buy it and we had this available to you, then in fact you are not going to get the benefit.”