[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 15449]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         THE AGRICULTURE CRISIS

  Mr. BAUCUS. Mr. President, I commend the Senator from North Dakota 
for his statement. He is on target. He raises an issue that so far this 
Congress has not dealt with. It is as precipitous, as calamitous, as 
tragic, frankly, as the Senator indicated. I very much hope that 
Senators heard the statement of the Senator from North Dakota. I also 
hope the White House heard his statement, and others, too.
  I do not know exactly what the answer is, but I do know we need an 
answer. We need a solution to the problems our farmers are facing 
because the conditions he described in North Dakota are the same 
conditions one would find in my State, particularly the eastern half, 
which produces a lot of grain and some barley. But it is a wheat-
producing area that is experiencing very difficult conditions.

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