Lawmakers - Oct 29, 1981
Lawmakers - Oct 29, 1981
Lawmakers - Oct 29, 1981
Lawmakers - Oct 29, 1981
Paul Duke intro commentary on Southern politicians. Well one of the regions with few female members is the south, which has traditionally been a male bailiwick and of course traditionally conservative. But as our commentator Charles McDowell points out these male members see nothing wrong with trimming their political philosophy if it benefits the home folk.
Lawmakers - Oct 29, 1981
Charles McDowell Commentary. First, a warning Tobacco can be dangerous to health and to consistent politics. Tobacco is grown mostly in the South. And the South is full of conservative zeal for President Reagan s mission to get the federal government off of the backs of the people. You might think that would tell us where southerners in the House of Representatives would stand on a farm program, quite apart from the health issue, that subjects tobacco farmers to severe regulation, quotas, bureaucratic red tape and interference in the market place. Don t be mislead, actually the South lead the victorious effort in the House last week to keep the government on the backs of the farmers. The reason was of course that the programs keep tobacco prices artificially high. What keeps prices up is restricting the supply. It s done through a scheme of allotments that were assigned to individual farmers in the 30s. Many of the allotments are now in the hands of absentee landlords who lease them to farmers for big money. So the program is a mixture of almost futile privilege and federal regulation to ensure high prices. None of this phased most of the tobacco built Congressmen; and it didn t faze the Republican or Democratic leaderships, both of which endorsed the tobacco program, partly to repay assorted southerners for past favors. One southerner invited frustrated liberals to vote for the program on the theory it was virtually a social program, as he put it, for poor rural folks. Now the Senate gets another look at the program before it goes to the President. But don t expect an outbreak of free enterprise. Jesse Helms of North Carolina, Chairman of the Senate of Agriculture committee, is in charge of keeping the government on the backs of his grateful tobacco farmers and landlords.
Lawmakers - Oct 29, 1981
Paul Duke. Last Sunday, most of the nation went back to standard time but this week the house voted to extend daylight savings time by two more months starting in 1982. If the Senate also approves the change, it will begin in early March instead of late April. Cokie Roberts, Linda Wertheimer and I have run out of time and as we take our leave tonight, we d like to show you some farm state Congressmen, who said during the daylight savings debate they didn t want their farmers plowing fields in the middle of the night and felt their urban colleagues needed educating in the barnyard realities.
Lawmakers - Oct 29, 1981
Congressman speaking on the House floor. and the chickens will be sleeping long past the time we ll be rousing. I wonder if we can designate by this Congressional body some act that would say who would be the official roster waker upper, so he can get all the people up.
Lawmakers - Oct 29, 1981
Credits run over daylight savings debate. Congressman 1. The Problem is when the cows are out on God s time and everybody else is the people other than the farmers are operating on government time, you have a conflict between the two. Congressman 2. So I was right in my provincial unknowing assumption that cows do whatever it is cows do according to natural time and not what time we think it is. Congressman 1. That s correct. Congressman 2. So the imposition would not be so much on the cows as it would be on those who milk them. Congressman 1. It s on those who milk them. Congressman 2. And those of you who represent those who milk the cows are telling us it s difficult to somehow adjust your schedule for an hour. Is that correct? Congressman 1. That s what I understand but the key issue is not that. The key issue is that audio fade out
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