[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 101 (Wednesday, July 16, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H5305]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




URGING MEMBERS TO DEFEAT AMENDMENTS WHICH WOULD ATTEMPT TO REWRITE THE 
          FARM BILL ON AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS LEGISLATION

  (Mr. EWING asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. EWING. Mr. Speaker, I come here today because today or tomorrow 
we are going to be taking up the agriculture appropriations bill. There 
will not be a rule on this bill, and the reason there is not a rule is 
because the appropriators and the authorizers are together. We know 
what is good for agriculture.
  But there are those in this body who want to rewrite the farm bill on 
the agriculture appropriations bill, and at the expense of American 
farm families. In the name of cutting Government, cutting expenses, 
when the farm bill passed no-cost programs to the Government, they want 
to change those no-cost programs. That is substantive legislation on an 
appropriation bill.
  Agriculture groups and Members of this body who have agricultural 
interests in their districts have come together to support America's 
farming men and women. I hope we will deny those Members their success 
on those amendments.

                          ____________________