On the recordMay 22, 1998
I have to say, Mr. Speaker, I have heard a little rhetoric this morning that is a little hotter than is necessary and, frankly, quite inaccurate and unfair. "Mean-spirited" I think is a little harsh. The agriculture community came to us, and they said they needed crop insurance. We agreed, and we want the agriculture community to get crop insurance through this Congress and through the White House, through the farmers of America. We are working hard on that. They also want additional funding for agricultural research. We are perfectly excited about moving that forward for the agriculture community, so we passed through this House a bill that would provide for agricultural research and crop insurance. A similar bill was passed through the Senate, and then House and Senate went to conference. In that conference, several things were added to the bill that had not been in either the House bill or the Senate bill.
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