Patrick Leahy: “To reiterate, we have to wonder what is going on. I know the upper Midwest massively overproduces milk. We are simply…”

“To reiterate, we have to wonder what is going on. I know the upper Midwest massively overproduces milk. We are simply asking to produce the milk we are going to consume in our area. They massively overproduce it. As the Minneapolis Star Tribune explained, Minnesota farmers want to sell ``reconstituted milk in Southern markets.'' They talk about drawing water out and shipping down some ``glop.'' I will let the reporter of debates figure out how to spell that. I don't know how. It sort of looks like it sounds. All we want is fresh milk in our region. We are not trying to take over any other part of the country. We have something that we have proved works. It doesn't cost the taxpayers anything. It helps stabilize farm income. Consumers have a voice in it and like it in the area. All we are saying is let us make some determination in our own part of the world. We are talking about billions and billions of dollars in farm aid in this bill. The amendment that Senator Jeffords, Senator Lott, and I, and others support says we don't want any Federal money; we want to set things the way we are now doing it, protecting our consumers and our farmers.”