Political Quotes

“What we have seen in the bill that is before us right now is an attempt to move farm programs, at least a lot of farm programs, into the 21st century--actually the 20th century; the late 20th century, not really the 21st century--in an effort for reform, the freedom to farm. There are a couple of programs that have been left aside, that have been allowed to continue as they are and have not been reformed. In fact, in the past several farm bills, while other commodity programs have been reformed, a couple of programs have been set aside for nontouched status. One such program is the Peanut Program. What we are trying to do with this amendment, Senator Bradley and I, is to do just a modest amount of reform over the next few years and really make this program look like programs like the Soybean Program looks today. So we are just trying to bring the Peanut Program into what is the 1960's and 1970's farm policy as opposed to the 1930's farm policy.”