Mike Conaway: “I thank Mr. Goodlatte for yielding. The subcommittee rejected this bill's predecessor on a 0-18 vote. There were no…”

“I thank Mr. Goodlatte for yielding. The subcommittee rejected this bill's predecessor on a 0-18 vote. There were no hearings on this activity. We have already heard the chairman say that the unintended consequences just of the scoring of this has not been done. This speaks to the fallacy of coming to this body tonight with a policy that is as broad and important for America as farm policy and to try to fix it with 20 minutes of debate on each side. It is just nonsense. This did not go through any hearings. We had field hearings, we had committee hearings, we had testimony from experts, we had testimony from producers throughout this process. And while that may have come to a result they don't like, it at least came to a result that has broad support. This process that they are bringing to us tonight should be subjected to the same scrutiny, to the same opportunity to look at what it does and what it does not do that all of the farm bill that we are looking at tonight does. They have not done that, and they have a lot of unintended consequences, and I urge my colleagues to oppose the Kind amendment.”