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get into the production of those 10 commodities which are supported? 



Secretary Brannan. You just make two assumptions which are 

 nowhere written as a part of our proposal. 



Mr. Pace. Then let us get them straight. 



Secretary Brannan. The first is that we are not going to support 

 any other commodities at any differential between support standard 

 and zero. 



The Chairman. May I add, if Mr. Pace will permit, that you are 

 not going to support basic commodities of those who refuse to accept 

 marketing quotas. 



Secretary Brannan. That is right. 



Mr. Pace. Then if this law were in effect today, or j'^our plan were 

 in eff'ect, what commodities would you support next year at 100 per- 

 cent of the parity support level? 



Secretary Brannan. Those commodities which the Board of 

 Directors decided would be supported at whatever level they decided 

 to support them in the best interests of everybody. 



Mr. Pace. Mr. Secretary, can you not go a little beyond that? 

 I know you have a very fine Board of seven directors of the Commodity 

 Credit Corporation, personally, but I believe Congress would like to 

 have some more specific information than that. 



Secretary Brannan. Well, let us say that we take the list of com- 

 modities generally over and above the basic ones which we are now 

 supporting. 



Mr. Pace. Take wool, for instance. You left it out of the 10 

 priorities. What would you do with wool next year? 



vSecretary Brannan. I imagine we would take a good look at a 

 price support for wool. We put lambs into the list of price-support 

 commodities, so the wool grower is not being forgotten. 



Mr. Pace. I am just trying to get it a little more specifically. 



Secretary Brannan. I am trying to predetermine all the actions of 

 the Commodity Credit Corporation for the next production season. 



The Chairman. May I interrupt you, Mr. Secretary, with Mr. 

 Pace's permission. 



Mr. Pace. Yes, Mr. Chairman. 



The Chairman. You take the basic commodities, and start out 

 with cotton. You have marketing quotas on cotton in 1950, and I 

 assume that you intend to support cotton at the level fixed in your 

 proposal. 



Secretary Brannan. Yes, sir. 



The Chairman. Is that right? 



Secretary Brannan. Yes, sir. 



The Chairman. You have marketing quotas on cotton. Now, 

 those who comply with the marketing quota law would get that 

 support? 



Secretary Brannan. Yes, sir. 



The Chairman. And it would be the same way with wheat if you 

 had wheat quotfis? 



Secretary Brannan. Yes, sir. 



The Chairman. And the same way with tobacco? 



Secretary Brannan. Yes, sir. 



The Chairman. And the same way with any other basic com- 

 modity. Wlienever the producers or two-thirds of the producers 



