[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Page 8404]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              AGRICULTURE

  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. President, I thank the Senator from Iowa for his 
work on the Agriculture bill. It is time we get this bill done. I hope 
we can do so. I am sure he would agree with some of the statements the 
Bush administration has made with regard to the question of ethanol 
that it is not the driving force behind the increase in food prices. 
This administration has never been overwhelmingly in favor of ethanol, 
but they have concluded that 2 percent to 3 percent of the increase in 
food prices deals with ethanol.
  We certainly made some progress in reducing the number of gallons we 
import around the world, sending wealth around the world because we 
have farmers and American workers who are producing this ethanol. Iowa 
is in the center of that, and I congratulate the leadership of the 
Senator from Iowa over the years. It is a net positive for the country.

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