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Senate Ag Committee Leadership in Michigan Seeking Answers for 2012 Farm Bill Questions

Tue, 31 May 2011 9:00:27 CDT

The first field hearing for the Senate Ag Committee on the 2012 Farm Bill, delayed from earlier this spring, is underway on the campus of Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. With the Chairwoman of the Senate Ag Committee, Debbie Stabenow, hailing from Michigan, she claimed the Chair's priviledge in going first to her home state. She promised a similar field hearing will be held in Kansas in the near future as a thank you for Senator Pat Roberts traveling with her to today's hearing.


Stabenow called the 2012 Farm Bill in reality a "jobs bill." She added in her opening comments that the difficult budget situation that we find ourselves in offers the opportunity to "streamline and simplify the 2012 farm bill."


Senator Roberts led a mini pep rally as he began his opening remarks with the cry "Go Green" and then said that he would be offering MSU the Nebraska Cornhuskers playbook (for football) since it was "top secret" and everything else that is top secret is being made public.


Senator Roberts also spoke of the big challenge that is ahead in writing the 2012 farm bill as well as the need to maintain a top notch crop insurance program. Senator Roberts explained to the Michigan audience of the desperation of wheat farmers here in the southern plains that are locked in the depths of one of the worst droughts since the Great Depression as they see wheat above eight dollars a bushel and having no crop to sell.


Senator Roberts also lamented the latest delays of the three pending Free Trade Agreements with Columbia, Panama and South Korea. He spoke of the "politics" that seems to be keeping the Obama Administration from sending the enabling legislation to the Capitol Hill for Congressional approval. He sat next to Senator Stabenow who is leading the delay in the Senate with a call to renew the assistance to those who supposedly have lost jobs because of trade agreeements. This multi billion dollar measure will be a tough sell to Republican lawmakers who want no fresh government spending stacked on top of the trillions of dollars of defiicits that are a part of the Obama Administration's first term.


We have Senator Robert's opening statement from East Lansing. Click on the LISTEN BAR below for his remarks at the front end of today's hearing.



   
   

Senator Pat Roberts offers his opening statement at the first Field Hearing for the Senate Ag Committee in developing their version of the 2012 Farm Bill. right-click to download mp3

 

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