Political Quotes

“So the problem is, he will have to go out and short the market; in other words, he will have to have a lower quota than they actually expect so they do not end up buying a bunch of peanuts and being stuck with the cost. We had two provisions in there that actually penalized farmers 5 percent every time they sold their peanuts to the Government when they had a price equal to the quota price available on the market. Well, they gutted that provision. They gutted that provision completely. How do they do it? First, they said the farmer has to put up his entire crop. What do you mean ``entire''? You put up 99 percent of your crop and you sell 1 percent on the open market, and you avoid all penalties. That is No. 1. There is a big loophole here, No. 1. No. 2, it says that you have to sell your entire crop to the Government for 2 consecutive years, and then you get penalized. One year one producer sells it all to the Government, the next year another one does, and you play games with producers so nobody gets caught. That is another big loophole in this. I can go on with a whole variety of other gutting amendments that occurred in conference. But the fact of the matter is this program is not reformed in this bill. We are going to have plenty of opportunities on the floor of the Senate over the next 6 months to reform it, and I am looking forward to that debate.”