Political Quotes

“the second amendment we will be voting on today is not a peanut amendment. It is an ethics amendment. It has nothing to do with the peanut program. It does not change the peanut program. It does not retroactively or prospectively alter anything in the peanut program. This is an ethics amendment. This amendment is very simple. It says the people who are the quota holders, the people who benefit from the program, should not also be the people who manage the program, who operate the program, who help promulgate regulations to oversee the program, who also do the enforcement for the program. That is virtually unprecedented in ag policy. I am not changing anything in the peanut program with this amendment, not one thing. All I am saying is the Secretary of Agriculture--this is what the amendment says--the Secretary of Agriculture shall determine whether these co-ops who oversee the program, who also are the beneficiaries of the program, violate the Federal ethics law. That is all this amendment says. That is not a change in the peanut program. That is just saying we should have some ethics in dealing with this issue.”