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Those free markets that you talked about around the world, then our sugar producers would go head to head. they are the low cost producers in the market. what we don't want to compete against as you saw with announcement yesterday, they have increased their subsidies to the sugar producers to produce more sugar. we wouldn't allow any product into this country dumped into the market at below the cost of production. we fight steel from coming in from turkey. we fought that. our sugar program shows we don't have to fight it every year. >> dana: let me ask you about another point. the work require...

Made. we're debating those. there are two in those. one is dismantlement of the sugar program and other would be an overall 10% cut over all these programs that would be basically eliminate them within 10 years which is more about should america's federal government protect its production of agriculture industry from undue and unfair competition around the world? and my answer says yes. so those two are the ones that we'll be debating in a few minutes. >> dana: curious thing for republicans especially and i used to work on capitol hill. i remember it well. the debates about this because the fr...

Sugar program is leaving a bitter taste in the mouth of some g.o.p. lawmakers who worry the changes could have a negative effect on food prices. doug mcelway is live on capitol hill. this is always a fight but this could have changes this time around. >> it could. sugar is one of the few agricultural commodities subsidized by taxpayers, by the federal government and has been a century now. legacy of the great depression and the droughts of that year where the farmers were truly, truly hurting but many say it's outlived the usefulness by inflating the price of sugars. representative fox from no...

Partisan farm bill in 20 years and warn about hitting the program with a sledge hhammesle. >> let's come to the table and stamp out fraud that won't do a disservice to the food stamp program to fight hunger. >> with tougher work requirement, gop leaders say the vast majority of the democrats in the house will vote no. >> there is no possible way we can support this bill. >> another sensitive subject is the sugar program with import restrictions and floor price that results in more expensive sugar. >> the sugar program needs reforming. what i am most interested is in is getting a farm bill pass...