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And many other amendments that came from folks would never had an amendment brought up and discussed, those amendments were discussed in the farm bill. I would say that probably of the 73 that were considered, there were 300 offered and people would get up, they would have their say. They discuss the amendment. They knew probably it would not pass, and they would withdraw it. But they at least had the opportunity to represent their states and their constituents, and we had that opportunity. This years farm bill, was in 73 a maintenance. Voted about 10 times. Senator thune, respected member of the Agriculture Committee, senator johanns, former secretary of agriculture, senator grassley and myself, we all had a total of about 12 amendments. We withdrew those from consideration from the Committee Markup and said well take them up on the floor. Except the majority leader ....

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