House Proceeding 07-30-09 on Jul 30th, 2009 :: 0:41:35 to 0:44:40
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Collin C. Peterson: . dingell: i'd appreciate it if the gentleman didn't praise me and let me say good words about him, he's a valuable member of the committee, he's hard-work, smart, decent and he's been great on this issue. the spe the gentleman from illinois continue to reserve? mr. reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan.

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Speech By: Collin C. Peterson

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Collin C. Peterson: mr. dingell: it's my privilege to yield to a very distinguished member of this body, chairman of the agriculture committee of the house and an extremely wise defender of american agriculture and american farmers, my good friend mr. collin peterson, two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the

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Collin C. Peterson: gentleman is recnized. mr. peterson: i want to commend chairman emeritus dingell for all his hard work on this issue, not only in ts session of congress but many sessions past. we are hopeful that we can move this legislation forward and

0:42:39 to 0:42:59( Edit History Discussion )

Collin C. Peterson: get additional safeguards in place for food safety in this country. we also want to commend the other members of the energy and commerce committee for their work on this in a bipartisan basis. good to see some bipartisan

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Collin C. Peterson: effort happening in the house and there was some good work done. we did have some concerns in the agriculture committee that we engaged in some discussions and negotiations with mr. dingell and others on the staff of the energy and commerce committee and we think we have further improved the bill in

0:43:22 to 0:43:42( Edit History Discussion )

Collin C. Peterson: terms of how it relates to agriculture. we were table clarify things in terms of livestock and grain farmers that -- there was some concern about the language and we cleared up things in terms of performance standards and recordkeeping. there were, as the bill came

0:43:43 to 0:44:04( Edit History Discussion )

Collin C. Peterson: out of energy and commerce, concerns registered by some of the farm groups, some of the them even indicated they might oppose it, but at this point, because of the changes that have been made, we now have groups that in the past had some concerns, they're now either neutral or supporting the bill, the unid food and

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Collin C. Peterson: vegetable group, the american farm bureau, national association of wheat growers, the cattlemen beef association, turkey fend ration, chicken council, soybean association, rice federation, american food industry association, the united e.g. producers -- the united egg producers, wheat growers and bar lee growers are

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Collin C. Peterson: now either supporting the legislation or are neutral on the legislation. we believe we have address the concerns of agriculture. we believe this is a good bill. i encourage you to support this