[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 75 (Monday, May 24, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H3465]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             ON MILK POLICY

  (Mr. GUTKNECHT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GUTKNECHT. Mr. Speaker, very soon a great debate will begin to 
rage here in the halls of Congress. That debate will be about how we 
price milk. My friends from other regions of the country will complain 
that if the system is reformed and the playing field is leveled, their 
dairy farmers would receive less or they would lose relative to other 
parts of the country.
  But, Mr. Speaker, we should understand that dairy farmers in my 
region of the country have been losers under the current convoluted 
milk marketing order system for over 60 years. This makes no economic 
sense. Even Justice Anton Scalia has called the system ``Byzantine.'' 
All we are asking for is equal pay for equal milk, and we will not give 
up this fight until we get it.

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