[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15161]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          WE NEED A FARM BILL

  (Mr. WALZ of Minnesota asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WALZ of Minnesota. Last week, the American people spoke; and I, 
for one, heard them loud and clear: quit arguing and get your dang work 
done.
  My suggestion is that we've got a piece that we can do today--pass 
the farm bill for America. America's farm economy has been one of the 
bright spots over the last 5 years, and our farmers and our consumers 
deserve some certainty. The House has already passed the farm bill 
through the Ag Committee with a two-thirds vote. The Senate passed a 
farm bill with a two-thirds majority. They couldn't agree it's 
Wednesday over there, yet they passed a farm bill. This bill adds 
certainty to rural America. It creates jobs on Main Street. It provides 
stable prices in the grocery stores, and it makes sure that in drought-
stricken areas of our country farmers are there to produce.
  This is a jobs bill. It's a bipartisan bill. It's a compromise. Every 
major farm and nutrition group has asked for it to be done. All we need 
to do is to bring it to the floor and to push one of the two buttons--
``yes'' for jobs in rural America and food for this country or ``no'' 
for more gridlock. I think we want the green button.

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