Thomas Daschle: “I have noted on several occasions my intention to move to the farm bill just as soon as we complete our work on the…”

“I have noted on several occasions my intention to move to the farm bill just as soon as we complete our work on the railroad retirement bill. It can be next Monday or Tuesday. It can be whenever we finish. But we will move to that bill next. We have to move to it. These are must-pass pieces of legislation that have to be done. We can take them in any order. But it is my intention to follow through with the order that I have already announced, which is to complete our work on the farm bill next. We will have the Defense appropriations bill, the stimulus bill, and the terrorist insurance bill. All of those have to be addressed. But as I noted--I see the chairman of the Agriculture Committee in the Chamber--the farm bill will be the next bill after the railroad retirement bill.”