[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 21078]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             THE FARM BILL

  (Mr. GINGREY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GINGREY. Mr. Speaker, it saddens me today that I have to vote 
against the farm bill, a $57 billion-a-year bill.
  I am compassionate and I care about the farmers in my district, but I 
must vote ``no'' and I must vote ``no'' for two reasons, one of which 
the gentleman from Tennessee just outlined. The bill calls for a 
massive tax increase on foreign companies that are doing business in 
this country. And in the State of Georgia, that is 176,000 jobs, 59,000 
of them in the manufacturing sector. The gentleman from Tennessee has a 
better idea, and I plan to support his amendment.
  And, Mr. Speaker, the Davis-Bacon prevailing wage requirement 
absolutely hurts innovative businesses, like U.S. Biofuels in Rome, 
Georgia, that want to convert chicken fat and soy beans to biofuel; and 
yet these prevailing wages take away all incentive for that.
  We kill jobs in this country with this farm bill, and I reluctantly 
must vote ``no'' and ask my colleagues to do the same.

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