Paul Ryan: “I hate to have to come to the floor today to talk about how bad this bill is, but it's impossible not to do that. This…”

“I hate to have to come to the floor today to talk about how bad this bill is, but it's impossible not to do that. This bill gives millions of dollars, billions of dollars in farm subsidies to millionaires. This bill takes all budget discipline in this Chamber and throws it out the window. It sweeps PAYGO under the rug. Ninety-seven percent of the world's consumers don't live in this country. They're overseas. And the way we help farmers is to open up markets to their products overseas. This bill shuts that down. This bill makes it next to impossible for us to be able to open up markets for our farmers. A farm bill ought to help the family farmer in tough times. This doesn't do that. This is corporate welfare. This is subsidies for multi-millionaires. In fact, you can still live on Wall Street, make half a million dollars and get farm subsidies under this bill. This bill is not going to help agriculture. This bill is going to help corporate agriculture, not family farmers. I believe that we should sustain the President's veto. And this is not always good to say it's bipartisan. And I hope, on a bipartisan basis, we support this veto and pass a farm bill that actually helps the family farmer and takes away these exorbitant subsidies to multi-millionaire corporate farming operations. We ought to protect conservation.”