Ron Kind: “I along with Representatives Boehlert, Dingell and Gilchrest, helped assemble a coalition last fall, Mr. Speaker, a…”

“I along with Representatives Boehlert, Dingell and Gilchrest, helped assemble a coalition last fall, Mr. Speaker, a bipartisan coalition, an urban-suburban-rural coalition, offering to do basically what this motion to instruct suggests, and that is taking a look at the current subsidy program, the income support program that exists in this country, and seeing if there was a way of moving some of the subsidy payments from the biggest of the big producers in this country, the upper 2 percent, over 97 percent of the farmers in this country would not have been affected by the conservation title amendment that many of us offered last fall, and see if we can move some of these limited, precious resources into other areas to benefit all family farmers in all regions of the country. This motion today is about developing a sensible and sustainable farm policy for all of our family farmers, but also for our communities.”