Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140107:17:29:00
Medium and small sized farmers. that's why for the first time i've been fighting for ten years to get a hard cap in so that the wealthiest farmers can't get more than that hard cap. because you laid out that the wealthiest farmers are getting most of the payments. let me quantify that. 10% of the largest farmers get 70% of the farm payments. by putting a hard cap on, we're going to direct the payments more towards medium and small farmers and i do that not only with the hard cap but i also do it by redefining what a farmer is. the government accountability office has reported that in some farm...