Political Quotes

“I am proud to present to the Senate the results of 2 years of work by the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: The Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994. What it does is mandate the first comprehensive reorganization of the Department of Agriculture since the 1930's. It is a result of 2 years' work. I am pleased to have been joined in that work by the distinguished senior Senator from Indiana [Mr. Lugar]. We have, in our capacities as the Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate Agriculture Committee, realized for some time that the Department of Agriculture needed reorganization. In the past year especially, there have been intense efforts on behalf of all members of the committee to craft a bill to do that. Shortly before the last recess, we were able to come together as a committee and pass out, with only one dissenting vote, the bill S. 1970 that is before the Senate. Let me tell you what it does. The last comprehensive reorganization of the Department of Agriculture occurred in the 1930's. The world changes. The Department of Agriculture, unfortunately, has not changed with it. And so, what we are going to do here is to make change--real change. This bill saves $2.3 billion. It is a $2-3 billion downpayment on reinventing Government. It is saving $2.3 billion for the American taxpayers. I believe a better Department of Agriculture will be the result.”