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Charles W. Stenholm: “But I wish my colleague would give credit to the Committee on Agriculture for doing that which we recognize we had to…”

On the recordJune 12, 1996
But I wish my colleague would give credit to the Committee on Agriculture for doing that which we recognize we had to do, and that is move the program more into the market orientation side. And we did that. But it is never enough for those that want to kill the program. Those that want to go in and eliminate the total program and would love to pay $400 a ton for peanuts and buy all the peanuts for 1 year until you break the farmers, I understand that. It makes good sense.
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Discussing agricultural price controls and farm program reforms during a floor debate.

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