Political Quotes

“I appreciate the comments from Mr. Valadao, my colleague from California, earlier when he said that they didn't have enough consumers to buy their milk. Well, we've got the opposite problem in Wisconsin. People want Wisconsin milk, and they want Wisconsin cheese. And it shows the geographical difficulty with this problem and with this underlying bill. Mr. Goodlatte seeks to correct those geographical differences by taking the most controversial piece of it out, and I stand here in support of doing that. You know, our Founders kind of instructed us and said, if you can find agreement in this Chamber, do those things; but if you can't find agreement--and we can't find agreement here--don't do those things. And so what Mr. Goodlatte is trying to do is go to the place where we have the most and most broad agreement, leaving the margin insurance element in place for farmers, but stripping out the supply management element where some regions of the country would be damaged by it. I support the Goodlatte amendment because it's the right type of reform for all Wisconsans and all of this country's dairy producers and processors, not one or the other, but both.”