Political Quotes

“I will go ahead and close. This has been a very interesting debate. It is just the wrong place for this debate. This is important agricultural policy that should not be determined based upon a 20-minute debate in the middle of an appropriation bill that funds agricultural programs. This is a debate that needs to wait until the 2007 farm bill. I hear the arguments. I am very much interested in good policy for agriculture, including addressing some of the concerns that have been raised about the sugar policy. This isn't the place to do it. So I urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment, and I look forward to addressing this in the writing of a new farm bill. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.”