DENNIS A. CARDOZA: “Should a frugal community have to subsidize a nonfrugal community?”

I urge my colleagues to vote for this commonsense amendment and prevent undue economic harm to our communities. I yield back the balance of my time.

You are absolutely correct, Mr. Deutch, and the visions of those scared mothers talking to us in their community by the bus stop, a shelter that has to be reinforced by concrete so that they can somewhat protect their children on the way…

Because ultimately, we are put in place to protect the public interest, and if we lose confidence in these markets, it is going to affect our entire economy.

Yes. When we already have 20 percent unemployment in those regions, you reduce the poultry and dairy production in those areas, unemployment will be even higher.