[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 61 (Monday, April 16, 2018)]
[House]
[Pages H3319-H3320]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     DANGERS OF PARTISAN FARM BILL

  (Mr. COSTA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COSTA. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to make clear the dangers of a 
partisan farm bill that we are considering in the House Agriculture 
Committee this week.
  Bipartisanship is not simply a buzzword. Bipartisanship is vital for 
policies to serve the widest range of Americans. Sadly, it is in short 
supply these days in our Capitol. The House Agriculture Committee has, 
for over 40 years, traditionally been a very bipartisan committee 
because our Nation's food supply affects everyone: rich and poor, 
farmers and consumers, Democrats and Republicans alike.
  Our farm bill is America's food bill, and it needs to be about 
feeding all of us. I always say it is really a matter of our national 
security, yet the bill we are considering this week is, without 
question, a partisan farm bill.

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  We see this in how it fails to serve key parts of our Nation and 
abandons many of our food insecure. A partisan farm bill is bad policy, 
plain and simple. It will not succeed legislatively nor can it be 
implemented successfully.
  I ask that we put aside these partisan differences, do as we have 
done traditionally, and work together to pass a bipartisan farm bill in 
the House and in the Senate that the President can sign.

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