[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 124 (Wednesday, September 22, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H8474]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           MOO DOO ECONOMICS

  (Mr. KIND asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KIND. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to announce today the creation of 
a new Federal program that will subsidize aqua farmers that raise 
lobsters to sell to consumers, and the amount of the subsidy will 
depend on the distance these lobster farmers are from Boston and Maine. 
Sound silly and ridiculous? Well, it is of course, but welcome to the 
world of our Federal dairy policy. Milk is the only product produced in 
this country that faces price discrimination based on where it happens 
to be produced and what it is used for, and that distance is based on a 
city in the heart of my congressional district, Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
  But today, Members of Congress have the ability to allow reform, much 
needed, long overdue reform, of that antiquated, depression-era policy 
to go forward by voting no on 1402 and saying good-bye finally to the 
``old moo-doo'' economics that we have been operating under since the 
great depression.

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