[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 67 (Friday, May 22, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H3759]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH BILL

  (Mr. STENHOLM asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STENHOLM. Mr. Speaker, I come and take this 1 minute today to 
alert my colleagues in the House of Representatives of a rule that we 
are about to take under consideration concerning the agricultural 
research bill that is unprecedented.
  The Speaker of the House of Representatives, the gentleman from 
Georgia (Mr. Gingrich), and his leadership, the gentleman from Texas 
(Mr. Armey), and the gentleman from Texas (Mr. DeLay) are about to do 
some tremendous damage to production agriculture all over this Nation. 
Because of the same manner in which they wrote the farm bill in his 
office, they are now writing a rule that is going, as I said, to do 
lasting damage to production agriculture.
  For the first time in my legislative life, we have the nutrition 
community and the production agriculture committee agree on additional 
funding for crop insurance and other agricultural needs and restoring 
of some food needs and doing it in a budget-responsible way. The rule 
that we are about to consider undoes it all.
  I want to alert my colleagues in the House, immediately after the 1-
minutes, I will urge a motion to adjourn until we can discuss this. 
And, hopefully, the leadership will go back upstairs and rewrite the 
rule in a fair way to let the conference report be considered by the 
full House.

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