[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 68 (Wednesday, May 15, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H2638]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           FARRM ACT OF 2013

  (Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, today the House 
Agriculture Committee is marking up a 5-year farm bill reauthorization, 
the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013, or 
FARRM Act.
  The FARRM Act is a commonsense package of agriculture reforms that 
will save taxpayers nearly $40 billion while strengthening the economic 
health of our family farms and small businesses. The bill is the 
product of a multiyear policy assessment designed to modernize Federal 
agriculture policy and achieve substantial deficit reduction.
  The FARRM Act delivers on both fronts, while offering American 
agriculture the tools to grow and prosper. The bill reduces regulatory 
burden on small businesses and makes needed reforms to nutrition 
assistance programs. It will help protect our forests and better manage 
our lands.
  Mr. Speaker, we can no longer allow partisan gridlock to prevent this 
reauthorization from becoming law. The bill is good for the economy. It 
promotes jobs and growth. It achieves deficit reduction. And it secures 
the ability of American agriculture to continue providing the safest 
and most abundant food supply in the world.

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