Paul Ryan: “I unfortunately believe it is a fight we are going to continue to have. But this amendment is so broad and so sweeping…”

“I unfortunately believe it is a fight we are going to continue to have. But this amendment is so broad and so sweeping and so comprehensive in so many ways that it leaves a lot of unanswered questions on the table. One of the concerns I have, which is a question or a concern is that, A, we have not seen a large scale analysis as to its real effect across the country. I really do not know what this is going to do to the dairy farmers in Wisconsin. One of the concerns I have is that this could incentivize an oversupply of class 1 price, which could turn over and depress the price of class 3 milk, which is what we produce where I come from. So I am concerned that this may actually depress our class 3 price in the upper Midwest. But I do applaud this effort. I think it is high time we think outside the box and try and get rid of the regionalism that has too long plagued this debate, but it is just not ready for prime time, in my opinion.”