one of the things we really could do to protect our farms and our farmers and our agriculture is avoid costs like some of those what I consider very ill-conceived programs, cap-and-tax, cap-and-trade, and frankly a food safety bill that is going to raise the cost on producers
On the recordJuly 13, 2009
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Thompson criticizes proposed programs that could increase costs for farmers.
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