[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 6]
[House]
[Pages 8848-8849]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               FARM BILL

  (Mr. NEUGEBAUER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. NEUGEBAUER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to encourage my colleagues 
to support the final conference report that was just brought to this 
House of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008.
  As a conferee, I participated in many hours of bipartisan and 
bicameral negotiations at which point we reached a bill that will be 
good for American agriculture, and it will be good for the American 
consumer.
  Mr. Speaker, it is important that we have a strong agricultural 
industry in

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this country today. We've already seen the implications of having other 
countries furnish our energy needs on a daily basis, and the last thing 
in the world that we need to happen is to rely on other countries to 
feed and clothe the American people.
  That's the reason, Mr. Speaker, it is so important that we get this 
important piece of legislation passed, sooner rather than later. Many 
producers all across America, farmers and ranchers, have already 
planted crops, and they do not have any policy to operate under.
  And so I urge my colleagues, when this bill comes to the floor this 
week, to vote positively for American agriculture and the American 
people.

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