Thomas Daschle: “The agricultural supplemental package represents, for many of our program crop farmers, a significant portion of the…”

“The agricultural supplemental package represents, for many of our program crop farmers, a significant portion of the income they will receive in this calendar year. A large portion of the income they are depending upon rides on whether or not we get this bill done in the coming week. We cannot leave without addressing these critical pieces of legislation. Why? Because they expire. The authorization literally expires during the month of August. So we can do it Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or we can work into the weekend, or the following week, but we really have to understand that these are critical bills that must be addressed. And the only way we can address them, as she correctly points out, is through the cooperative effort of both parties, and I would hope both leaders.”