Robert Berry: “We not only have emergency spending we are going to have to do for agriculture this year to keep it in business. As my…”

“We not only have emergency spending we are going to have to do for agriculture this year to keep it in business. As my colleague, the gentleman from Texas, also just mentioned, these terrible shortfalls that we have in rural hospitals and all rural health care providers, home health care, all these things are creating a desperate situation in rural America. We also had this shortfall in the way we pay the men and women that fight for this country and serve in our Armed Forces. It is absolutely unconscionable that we would put them in a situation where they are putting their lives on the line every day, and, at the same time, they have to worry about whether or not their families back home are being taken care of. They know that their families are living below the poverty level, and we should not, a great Nation that we are, ask our men and women in uniform to make a sacrifice like that at the same time we are asking them to protect us. All of these things just do not make any sense, and we know that we are going to eventually have to deal with them, and we should make allowances for that in how we spend our money and allocate our monies in this country.”