Everyone Benefits from a Strong, Smart Farm Bill

Revitalizing Rural America

In my first speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate, I spoke about the possibilities and promise that America’s small towns and rural communities offer for a country in need of clean, renewable energy, a secure food supply and responsible stewardship of our land and water. Unfortunately, for too long Washington has overlooked the opportunities that Rural America can provide, leaving small towns and rural communities across the country to wither on the vine.

To help shift our focus back to the revitalization of our rural communities, members of the Senate Agriculture Committee have crafted a strong, smart and sensible farm bill that will help bring new life and new energy to rural America.

This week, I gave a speech on the floor of the United States Senate highlighting a few major pieces of this bill and how they help not just our farmers and rural communities, but also how they help protect our natural heritage, how they make us less dependent on foreign oil and how they make our food supply more secure.

Please click here to read the full text of that speech.

Please click here to listen to excerpts from that speech.


President Bush: "I will veto the 2007 farm bill"

President Bush has said he will veto this bill. This, in my view, would be immoral, as it would only further this Administration’s policy of neglect towards our communities in rural America.

I am extremely disappointed that President Bush has so quickly dismissed the farmers, ranchers and rural communities that form the bedrock of our Nation. I strongly urge the President to stop playing politics and reconsider his threat to veto this strong, smart and forward-looking farm bill.

Please click here to view a Denver Post article on President Bush’s veto threat.

Please click here for audio of my reaction to President Bush’s veto threat.

If you would like, please take a few moments to tell me what you have to say about the President’s threat to veto the 2007 Farm Bill.


A New Era of Opportunity for Rural America

The 2007 Farm Bill renews our commitment to the forgotten communities of Rural America, not only by lending a helping hand to our Nation’s hard-working farmers and ranchers in their time of need, but also by recognizing how the productivity and ingenuity of rural Americans can bolster our National efforts to protect the environment, lessen our dependence on foreign oil and make America’s food supply more secure.

This bill plants the seeds for a new era of opportunity and prosperity in America, and I am proud to support it.

Sincerely,

Ken Salazar
United States Senator

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