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On the recordApril 14, 1999
There is no excuse when we have the power to do something about it. The majority does. We should move tomorrow. We should have a bill on this floor before we go home this weekend and we ought to pass it so that the farmers can go to work. Planting season, as my colleague said, has started. And in the Southeast, for some of the crops, we are getting pretty far along already. And in my colleague's part of the country, they are going to be planting within the next week or so and some are probably getting land ready. We need to act now, and it does not need to be next month.
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Emerson Etheridge
Ind. Republican-Democrat · Tennessee
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Editor's note · Context

Advocating for immediate legislative action to support farmers during planting season.

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