Minnesota Farmers Union (MFU) President Doug Peterson would like to express his support to Minnesota Representative Collin Peterson in his call for assurance of debate from Speaker of the House, John Boehner, and House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor, in regards to crafting another possible farm bill.

MN Farmers Union logo Speaker Boehner has been previously quoted saying, "We need to stop writing bills in the Speaker's office and let members of Congress be legislators again… We have nothing to fear from letting the House work it's will – nothing to fear from the battle of ideas. That starts with the Committees. The result will be more scrutiny and better legislation."

Representative Peterson, MFU and others alike confer that not allowing time for the Agriculture Committee's bipartisan bill to be debated on the floor was a disregard to letting the house "work it's will".

MFU President Peterson would like to call to action all commodity groups to join in support of Representative Peterson, to support his endeavors of receiving assurance of a farm bill debate.

01.07.2013