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On the recordJune 20, 2013
Madam Chairman, we have all heard the phrase ``American as apple pie,'' but it is shameful to think that every American pie has baked into it Soviet-style sugar. We have a Byzantine array of government production quotas, import quotas, mandatory target prices. And what does it do? It destroys three jobs for every one it creates and transfers millions of dollars from working Americans to 6,000 sugar growers. It is time for us to put ``American'' back into ``American as apple pie.'' Let's support the gentleman from Pennsylvania's amendment.
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Jeb Hensarling
Republican · Texas

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