Every single american in a very positive way. Some of the keys id lieblg to em fa sies in this bim,en hansed Crop Insurance. Ive heard from across my state that farmers and rampblers wanten hanszed com snurnsz. Thats absolute lip a priority. We need to continue the sugar program, the Livestock Indemnity Program for our producers. We need conservation rules that make sense in the house vergsz, you do tie i think that is the right approach, and, obviously, under the Current Program if enroll in the program, you are also tied to the compliance requirements. We need strong support for ag research. For all of you that live and work in farm country, look what ag research has done for genetics and production. Its unbelievable talking about productivity. We have to support the programs. The senator was nice enough to mention the work done on a bipartisan basis. Shes been an absolute leader in the conservation programs, particularly rural Water Management. The Regional Conservation Partnership
Way to cut spending. The question is no longer whether sequestration should be replaced, but how. As every member of this Conference Committee knows, both the house and Senate Budget call for changes to the budget control act and replace sequestration in different wales. The house budget fully replaces the defense cut, lists the b. C. A. Cap, and pays for that by cutting from key domestic vements investments. The Senate Budget pays for that with an equal mix of spending cuts and revenue caused by wasteful tax loopholes that benefit the wealthiest americans and corporations. So getting a bipartisan deal to replace quest racial is going to require compromise. There is no way around it. I am going into this budget conference ready to agree to some tough spending cuts that unlike the quester sequester caps that disappear in 2022, will be locked into law. I know there are some republicans that would be interested in swapping some of the infish and damaging sequester cuts with programs that
Turned 100 and it looks every day its age. It is a broken, in efficient mass. Mess. It is time to bring it into the 21st century. Im committed to tax reform. And loopholesffs for us to close in the meantime without jeopardizing the goals of comprehensive tax reform. My hope is that this conference and put our feet in both cant , for tax reform and against tax ripoffs. Ood place to start incentives that Push Companies to move jobs overseas. Second is medicare. The future for medicare is better care at lower cost. 965. S very different than 1 chronic disease, cancer, problems d other current government rules and practices impede our efforts to deliver to these seniors. We are working on a bipartisan proposal to address these issues. We look forward to working with the conference on these issues. There is a better way, colleagues. Is there my view parity between defense and nondefense. The rule of the whole theration debate rules were that you are going to cut defense and nondefense equal