[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7997]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           U.S. FARM PROGRAMS

  (Mr. STENHOLM asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STENHOLM. Mr. Speaker, this week a ruling by a committee of the 
WTO seems to have been interpreted by too many in the press that this 
was the end of farm programs in the United States. Furthest from the 
truth.
  Let me encourage everyone to be patient until the 400-something-page 
report is read and deciphered by the House Committee on Agriculture and 
the Department of Agriculture, and then let us see exactly what they 
have said. Do not panic.
  And let me remind everyone in the United States that we are truly 
blessed to live in a country that has the most abundant food supply, 
the best quality of food, the safest food supply, at the lowest cost to 
our people of any other country in the world. And to those who are 
critical of our farm programs that feed the American people in this 
way, take a good hard look and realize when you sit down at the dinner 
table tonight it is because of the American farmer and rancher.

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